Greetings, You talk about gluing to coke bottles, and I think you are looking at doing some sort of vault lights (called sidewalk or pavement lights as well) or deck prisms. I've looked at these, on and off over the years. For the sidewalk/deck purposes, the top (outer) surface is flat, and the inner surface is either partially prismatic, or bullseyed to spread/point the light where it is needed.
Since these are going to not be on a surface that would be expected to walk on, it might be interesting to experiment with other shapes ... perhaps a fresnel lens to collect or disburse as much light as possible on the inside or outside surface, or have them oriented toward where the light collection is. Of course, in my mind's eye, having a bunch of various-height towers, with prisms on the top, pulling all the ambient light, and focusing it on the prism at the top of the hexayurt, which, inside spreads out the light evenly across the whole space, quite a lovely image, as the lights shift, flicker, and change colours. These, of course, were originally made of glass, but why not make some out of resin or clear plastic, which still would serve as the appropriate light-pipe, would be easy enough to seal to/adhere to, and (if using a bracketing system) would be inexpensive enough to be able to switch them out (perhaps some various colours, or different ones depending on what light is to be gathered) or gel them for various purposes. Yes, I know that a coke-bottle with water in it (hopefully chlorinated, so it doesn't grow things) is a quick, cheap solution, but it is also a large lever that the wind can play with, sticks out when trying to pack flat, and is not exactly a long-term solution. Something a lot more on the flat-side of things, using what we know about light and lenses, and how it's not the distance that the light travels, but the angle of reflection vs. the angle of refraction ... Design well! Percival On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Jacob Rodriguez <[email protected]>wrote: > Most things will come off if you peel them off. > > I'd suggest Contact Cement (because it's working awesome for me now), > silicone, liquid nails, or maybe some sort of epoxy. Maybe even try some > varnish or lacquer. I'm just trying to think of things that are known for > being ultra sticky. But the flexibility of tarps or plastic bottles makes > that a difficult order. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
