oops
continued.
so if a bay is rectangular, why can't an entire end of the bay be the focal
area when gravitic arrays are concerned?
if we assume handwavium for gravitic array focused beams, why stop there?
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:58 PM, allen carpenter
<>wrote:
> ok, I will ask a seemingly simple (minded) question; Why do laser beam
> focal arrays have to be round, when they are graviticaly focused? Bays are
> assumed to be rectangular boxes based on common calculations (LXWXH)
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:40 AM, atpollard <> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> N = A / (R x R x 3.4641)
>>
>> where:
>> N = Number that will Fit.
>> A = Area of Big circle or rectangle
>> R = Radius of a single array.
>>
>> This treats the circular array as a hexagon (which will interlock) and
>> divides the area (A) of the big circle-rectangle by the area of the Hexagon
>> (R x R x 3.4641). The 3.4641 is derrived from [(Cotangent 30) x 2 x 6 / 2].
>>
>> Enjoy.
>> Arthur
>>
>>
>> --- In <>,
>> "Roger Malmstein" <starwolf@...> wrote:
>> >
>> > I would like to get some quick and dirty rule for how many circles of a
>> > specified radii I can get into either another circle or within a
>> rectangular
>> > area.
>> > This request has something to do with my previous post about updating
>> > "Traveller Beam Factory". I have plans to enable laser turrets,
>> barbettes
>> > and bays have more than one laser array if the array diameter is less
>> than
>> > the diameter or width/length of the mount. It doesn't need to be precice
>> as
>> > I have seen calculations for this and it just seizes up my brain. It can
>>
>> > error on the side of fewer arrays as we can handwave it with a certain
>> > percent of the available area will be lost for technical purposes.
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> "Here at Ortillery Command we have at our disposal one hundred megawatt
> laser beams, mach 20 titanium rods and guided thermonuclear bombs. Some
> people say we think that we're God. We're not God. We just borrowed his
> SMITE button for our fire control system"
>
--
"Here at Ortillery Command we have at our disposal one hundred megawatt
laser beams, mach 20 titanium rods and guided thermonuclear bombs. Some
people say we think that we're God. We're not God. We just borrowed his
SMITE button for our fire control system"