[simpits-tech] Why Gene shouldn't do math.

[Rick Davis]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROY!!!

Now begins the era where all the Doctors want to insert things in places 
where things should normally exit.

Welcome to the club!

R


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy Coates" <roy at flightlab.liv.ac.uk>
To: "Simulator Cockpit Builder's List" <simpits-tech at simpits.org>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] Why Gene shouldn't do math.


> On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Gene Buckle wrote:
>
>
> gene, have you tried adding beer?
>
>
> Today is my 50th birthday and I just got home from a surprise party a
> good friend organised for me. Very cool, very touching, and I may be
> pretty drunk too !   :^)
>
> Math always looks better after a beer - honest !
>
>
>>
>> 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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