Society of Motion Picture Engineers : incorporation and by-laws (1927)

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114 Transactions of S.M.P.E., July 1927 are. The optical relation of the image back of each section to the outline of that section carries this foreshortening still further and the individual beam becomes more nearly equal in the two diameters corresponding to the two centerlines of the section of mirror. As MIHROf^ DESIGN ^5 5ECTI0N 3GIN. POLVaONAL MIRROR FOCAL LENGTH lZ.d5' ISO AMR HIQH INTENSITY ARC Fig. 4 — A typical form taken by a paraboloidal shell "when lined with polygons designed to give individual beams of uniform sectional area. an illustration, the average width of a mirror in the outer zone is 7.81 in. and the length is 8.50 in., but the beam from this mirror is almost square in section, and each of these square beams is rotated 30 deg. from the orientation of the beam from an adjacent mirror in the same zone. As a result of the way in which the corners of the beams are spaced around the edge of the combined beam they are almost wholly lost to view, and the beam appears circular in outline with a series of 48 faint scallops equally spaced around the edge. The