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Re: [simpits-tech] Why Gene shouldn't do math. [message #1413] Fri, 18 June 2010 16:59 Go to next message
allendc  is currently offline allendc
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Gene
I come up second version with three 110 inch screen segments each at
60 degrees for a total screen angle of 180 degrees with a radius of
110 inches or a diameter of 220 inches or 18.333 feet

David
www.737FlightSim.com

At 02:17 PM 6/18/2010 -0700, you wrote:

>I suspect you've all seen my absurdly large screen by now. If not,
>behold:
>
> http://www.simpits.org/geneb/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/six- segments-3.jpg
>
>That screen is six of the 8 segments needed to build a 180 degree screen
>that's right around 24' in diameter.
>
>The size of that thing has been bugging me ever since I built it.
>
>I started working through the figures again. Yell if I screw it up
>(again):
>
>Each projector can display a 110" wide image. Three of them would require
>a screen 330 inches wide. Now I want to display this on a screen that
>covers a field of view that's 180 to 225 degrees.
>
>Now going on the assumtion that those 330 inches of screen would be pretty
>close to a circle that's 660 inches in circumference, right? Right.
>
>So a circle that's 660 inches in circumference works out to a diameter of
>roughly 210 inches or 17.5 feet.
>
>I can honestly say that I have no farking clue where I came up with a
>screen diameter of 24 feet. It must have been a math induced brain fever
>or something.
>
>Back to the drawing board I go....
>
>g.
>
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Re: [simpits-tech] Why Gene shouldn't do math. [message #1418 is a reply to message #1413 ] Fri, 18 June 2010 18:38 Go to previous message
Gene Buckle  is currently offline Gene Buckle
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On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, David C. Allen wrote:

> Gene
> I come up second version with three 110 inch screen segments each at
> 60 degrees for a total screen angle of 180 degrees with a radius of
> 110 inches or a diameter of 220 inches or 18.333 feet
>

David, the physical screen segments will be broken down into 11.25 or 22.5
degree slices in order to make it more efficient to make parts for.
That's how I did the larger one. The FOV for each projector is completely
under the control of the software. For example, Ivar Hestness' 737
project is using a 225 degree physical screen using 3 projectors that show
75 degree slices of view using un-docked windows. The NThusim gang
recently added a feature to their software that would clip the pixel or
two wide border that appears when an un-docked window in MSFS has the
input focus.

g.



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