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11 Feb 2026 07:09:38 EST (-0500)
  Re: Practical Stargate kawoosh effect ideas  
From: Nekar Xenos
Date: 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00
Message: <web.698c0c9c214fceddcfa89c9ea1376c@news.povray.org>
"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> "Nekar Xenos" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>
> > The reason I posted this in off-topic was a thought experiment on what would be
> > the easiest way to use the above method to make it for a man-cave? Instead of
> > the periscope which is too small, put a 45 degree mirror behind your stargate
> > model and a clear plastic tub of water above it. Then use a compressor to blow
> > air in.
>
> OOOOoooooh.
> Constructing one IRL!
>
> Maybe you could make it small and magnify it, and then just use a pellet gun or
> a paintball marker for your air cannon.
>
> Perhaps even shoot the air through a small hole in a mirror to hide the
> mechanism.
>
> You could even use a webcam or something so that you could composite the
> stargate ring and the kawoosh somehow.
>
> - BE

 Yes, a magnifying mirror might work and maybe even help to bring the image more
foreward. Maybe I should try recreating it in Pov-Ray with photons.

-Nekar Xenos-


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