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| (...) Yes - but that wouldn't be a funnel shape - it would need to be a 'retro-reflector' that reflects all light back to it's source - no matter the direction. That's why I was babbling on about the retroreflective tape they have on kids clothes (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| How exactly do the retroreflectors work? I was under the impression that you couldn't selectively reflect light unless you had a parabolic dish - and then it would all focus on one point. Do your reflectors have a convex mirror, or some other (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) you (...) then (...) or (...) No, there are no convex mirror, just triangular prisms, like small pyramids. Their angles are designed to reflect the light back to the direction it came from (thru' two reflections). I can provide an example in (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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