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Re: Rotman Lens

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Post by SiempreViernes »

totetsu wrote: post #29

I wonder if you could do this with sea walls and gates and make beamformeable surf breaks.

The precondition is a controlled input, if you can provide that in the context of sea walls I think you have solved a much bigger problem.

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Post by logdahl »

ragebol wrote: post #27
goodmythical wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tito Beveridge creator of Tito Vodka, Ed Currie creator of the Carolina Reaper and Pepper X, Keith Weed the president of Britain’s Royal Horticultural Society, Usain Bolt one of the quickest people in the world, Thomas Crapper - commonly but incorrectly attributed with the invention of the modern toilet - founder of Crapper & Co plumbing company, meteorologist Sarah Blizzard, LEO Rob Banks, Donna/Mike/Bobbie Singer a…

These are called aptonyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym?useskin=vector

I found this one truly shocking!

Amy Lloyd, British neuroscientist who studied amyloid plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease[0]

[0] https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/amy-lloyd

Re: Rotman Lens

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Post by varjag »

amirhirsch wrote: post #9
brcmthrowaway wrote: post #8

The type of old school black magick engineering Claude could never.

Oh I dunno. I made a mm-wave radar with a Rotman lens using a generative loop between Python, Rhino, and EM simulation. Pretty sure AI could cook that up.

What did you use for the simulation part?

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Post by amelius »

varjag wrote: post #33
amirhirsch wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh I dunno. I made a mm-wave radar with a Rotman lens using a generative loop between Python, Rhino, and EM simulation. Pretty sure AI could cook that up.

What did you use for the simulation part?

Yes, I'm also interested in this.

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Post by Tade0 »

goodmythical wrote: post #23
Y_Y wrote: post #19

> The principle was first published by Walter Rotman and R. F. Turner in 1963 Astonishing nominative determinism there

Tito Beveridge creator of Tito Vodka, Ed Currie creator of the Carolina Reaper and Pepper X, Keith Weed the president of Britain’s Royal Horticultural Society, Usain Bolt one of the quickest people in the world, Thomas Crapper - commonly but incorrectly attributed with the invention of the modern toilet - founder of Crapper & Co plumbing company, meteorologist Sarah Blizzard, LEO Rob Banks, Donna/Mike/Bobbie Singer a…

I think nominative determinism has it backwards: people are actually nudged into careers which fit their names as whoever is on the receiving end of their services automatically has a more positive sentiment if they notice the name fits.

I experienced this myself as my first name was rare in my generation and normally found in history books or literary classics so I was perceived through that lens.

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Post by Skwid »

You can do something similar in 3D with Luneberg lenses, as used on the AN/SPG-59[1]. A truly wild piece of engineering, as is the following SCANFAR system if you're into that sort of thing. I can only assume someone in the top brass had a skim of Arthur C Clarke's Superiority and forwarded it straight on to engineering with a big green approved stamp.

1. https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/content/techdigest/pdf/...

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Post by amarant »

R.F Turner is a pretty nice example of nominative determinism. Parents up and named him "radio frequency dial", so of course he works in antenna technology
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