To: alnitak
More reflection makes me think that one would need too many braces. You'll have to check with chainsaw on this. You're probably right that any inflated object would try to be convex.
10 posted on
08/26/2003 12:21:38 PM PDT by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Doctor Stochastic
Doing a google search for membrane mirrors (both on the web and news groups) returns some interesting links. Seems the favoured way to distort the mirror is to give it an electrostatic charge so that the back of the mirror can be attracted by an opposite charge.
11 posted on
08/26/2003 1:05:22 PM PDT by
alnitak
("That kid's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver" - Foghorn Leghorn)
To: Doctor Stochastic
12 posted on
08/26/2003 1:12:41 PM PDT by
alnitak
("That kid's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver" - Foghorn Leghorn)
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