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i like snakes and a free palestine

aside from the aforementioned affection towards snakes, i also hold a great deal of fondness in my heart for hollow knight (i am extremely normal™ about collector), rain world (miros birds are the best creature i will not be accepting criticism on this), command and conquer red alert 2 (kirov reporting), in stars and time (one must imagine sisyphus stuck in a time loop), and about a million other things.
i played through slay the princess and spent the whole game pretty much completely ignoring her in favor of dicking around with the narrator (there is no good ending because the narrator always dies) and the voices (contrarian is the best one), which probably says a lot about me (i am aromantic asexual (this will not stop me from rebugging horny™ shit that i am tangentially interested in)).
fuck it i'm a girl now (still he/they tho)
i also like to draw and make games & shit.


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echo-parallax
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Even though the sun has an angular diameter of half a degree in the sky, the shadow of this window screen on a wall 5 meters away isn't totally blurred out — the horizontal lines of the mesh are still visible!

My guess is that this is because the sun's shining between some trees' leaves — since most (but not all) of the sun's covered by the leaves, the window screen shadow acts as if the light source had a smaller angular diameter. Or maybe it's not so much the angular diameter that matters — the disk of the sun acts like a blur kernel, so if random parts of it are covered, it'll attenuate higher frequencies (like in the window screen pattern) less.


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in reply to @echo-parallax's post:

this might be related to the fact that light rays travel more parallel to each other the farther away from the source they are, so they are naturally less diffuse even after passing past an obstacle

also i feel like half a degree is still quite small?

interesting! are you thinking that the foliage essentially turns one larger more distant light into smaller, closer lights?

like essentially acting as pinhole lenses

if you ever saw an eclipse, the shadows cast by leaves are crescent shaped, demonstrating the lens effect, "reprojecting" the source much tinier

the horizontal lines might be more visible because the light is coming in via horizontal slit, which is the slice of the sky visible above the horizon?

do we need to find a physics professor, i want to know what is going on tooo