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powder_pig
Kite Builder II
Joined: 16 Jun 2008
Posts: 2118
Location: Portland, OR, AKA Region 9
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 Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 1:51 am Post subject: Oops... |
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I am in the process of doing a tube tail for one of my Lanterns. I thought ...I have white (lots), black (quite a bit), an a kind of reddy-orange (enough).to make a tube tail about 25' long and 3.5' in Diameter. So this is what i designed thinking that a spiral turning tube tail would be neato. (That's an old word. It means "good" for those of you that were born after 1970)
If I had made this I would be in great shape...unfortunately I decided to double the width of each panel and now I have the red stripe lining up with the black stripe and so on. So as the tube tail spins it looks like the stripes turn from red to black and back to red...etc.
Ooooooooooooh...well. 
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It's sunny and windy in the summer and cold and snowy in the winter...this must be what heaven is like. |
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planish
Joined: 19 Aug 2008
Posts: 1664
Location: Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:09 am Post subject: Re: Oops... |
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| powder_pig wrote: | | So as the tube tail spins it looks like the stripes turn from red to black and back to red...etc. |
It's a feature, not a bug.
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John Rose
"I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar." (Wash, in Serenity)
ToDo list: hand shadow bird graphic on a Dopero; Urban Ninja; Marilyn Monroe portrait kite; another One-Piece Cody; Cody Box; Catherine's Wheel; Dave Wadeson's "Mouse", Manga Multiconos. |
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KiteSquid
Master Kite Builder
Joined: 29 Aug 2003
Posts: 10131
Location: USA Virginia King George
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:31 am Post subject: |
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explain it as an optical illusion.........
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KiteSquid
AKA TakoIka
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King George VA
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JC
Joined: 17 Apr 2005
Posts: 625
Location: Belgium
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:03 am Post subject: |
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| KiteSquid wrote: | | explain it as an optical illusion......... |
or make a video, and show us 
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OldGoat
Joined: 01 Apr 2006
Posts: 668
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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I agree with Planish....what a clever design.
Of course you did it on purpose  |
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rocky
Joined: 05 Feb 2006
Posts: 56
Location: Bethlehem,Pa.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:50 pm Post subject: Kite Flying Day |
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Hi All ...
Today is kite flying day...
I don't expect to go & stand in 8" of snow...30* & wind a blowing..
Maby next month..
Another storm is expected tues nite...
Back to the workshop & make another kite...
Rocky
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imagin
Kite Builder I
Joined: 23 Oct 2003
Posts: 507
Location: Moncton, NB Canada
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| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe 3-4 ' of snow and perhaps -30 and winds gusting to 90 mph would encourage you...not!!!!
Now, I really am just making this up...but not so foreign to the winters we experience here.
So far (knock on wood) we've had a rather gentle winter. Thank Goodness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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