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Re: Artificial horizon
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Feb 20, 13:41 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Feb 20, 13:41 -0500
Fred, I still cannot say that I understand completely why exactly darkening the liquid improves reflection. On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Fred Hebard wrote: > I was the one who recommended oil over corn syrup. > The purpose is to > darken the pan to improve reflection, as George George gave another reason: to decrease reflection from the bottom. > The spilled oil is > messy. Or, yes! I know. Spilled corn syrup is also messy, but the spilled mixture of both is really nasty:-) Alex.
