redesign of ONeill cylinder mirrors

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: redesign of ONeill cylinder mirrors

# 6235 bybronto@... on Jan. 17, 2005, 11:13 p.m.
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victoriatangoman wrote:
> For the "light tube" where does the light come from?

The "hatbox" design has a small window in one pole of the habitat (which
is otherwise entirely shielded), and a parabolic mirror at mid axis to
distribute the light (leaving the other pole in twilight). That's not
the only possible approach!

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Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
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