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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike Dougherty<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 16, 2017 7:25 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] tumbling pyramids again<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Feb 16, 2017 7:49 PM, "spike" <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal>OK now imagine a light shining directly down from above. The square-down<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>devices reflect the light four ways, but the triangle-down devices reflect<br>it only two ways. The signal return could be detected remotely, which would<br>indicate the range of h predominant in that sample. If you run off to the<br>patent office with the idea, say nice things about me.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'm late to this conversation, so I'm going to be brief to catch up. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…My initial thought was that CG would not be enough, then spike used a super ball to suggest material dependence…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I had a nerf ball I tried to slice up but so far it was an epic fail. It deforms under the blade so I haven’t been able to make a good clean cut. I might try the old nichrome hot wire technique but I don’t have any nichrome.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…Also, for the gentle-sims bet for street cred, i posit phi as the magic height. It's magic everywhere else, why not here too?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>If that turns out to be right, I will totally swoon. Better yet, if it turns out to be right, we will be famous (but not rich, dammit.) Reasoning: we publish a result like that, the science community will go totally nuts trying to explain why it works.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>If anyone knows how to make a closed-foam polyvinyl that would work, I can get my buddy to 3D print us a mold. Alternative: we can use that expand-o-foam stuff they sell down there at the hardware store, or perhaps bondo body putty. Or we could make them out of balsa wood (that is the most isotropic wood I know of.) Other ideas?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>