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| brian... |
 Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:11 pm |
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It can be an old windows program too as I have wine and others are also
interested.
Basically, I want to design a reflective solar cooker that will cook for
about 3 hours with most of the rays bouncing up from below the cooking pot.
(A compound parabolic concentrator might be needed) a truncated winston
paraboloid perhaps.
So I need a program where I can easily make a line or a curve, and then
point a "light ray" at it from various places and see where it bounces to.
It should bounce off the mirror shapes and stop bouncing when it gets to the
pot or oven shape ideally.
So a program that can do that would be awesome.
3 dimensions would be great but 2 will suffice for now. The sun moves at 15
degrees per hour on the celestial sphere. So my cooker should take the rays
from 45 degrees of sun movement and concentrate them.
There are ray tracing programs out there but I just need something really
simple that works quickly as I change the shapes. Povray and others are
just too complicated.
Stuff from 5 years ago would suffice, I think! Or perhaps something on
sourceforge that I missed.
Anyway, thanks for any help I get.
Brian White |
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