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Dead hologram controller
Ugh. I went to power up the table on Saturday and discovered the main controller wouldn’t come on.
At first I thought the laptop had frozen (it doesn’t this every once in a blue moon) but no, it was running just fine.
Poking around under the table revealed a slightly melted fuse cover on the main controller and a fuse with no wire at all.
The recent electrical storms had apparently tried to toast the controller.
After purchasing some new fuses I found that the recent electrical storms had succeeded in frying the controller. As soon as I turn it on the fuse blows in a spectacular way. Short in the transformer? That’s what I’m hoping.
Virtual eclipse
I didn’t know Stellarium would show a simulation of a lunar eclipse. I could have used this view this morning as the clouds moved in during the total eclipse of the moon.
Dolmen work II
The dolmen is moving along (slowly, but moving) and last night I did a reflection color test to find out what concentration of TEA (triethanolamine) to use to get some interesting colors in the final hologram.
As a test I prepared some 2, 3, and 4% solutions of TEA and cut up a 4×6" piece of film into three sections.
the TEA was fleshly prepared and still warm and each piece of film was soaked for about a minute, squeegeed and left to dry for 30 minutes in my drying box.
The subject was a simple background that I could use to easily judge the differences in color.
After a 10s exposure the strips were developed in JD2 and bleached with EDTA and dried.
I ended up with a range of colors from yellow-red to gold that should work well in the final hologram.
At the moment I’m thinking of using a subtle range of colors rather than the more easily made red/green/orange I was thinking of. Something more along the lines of orange for the moon, golden for the terrain and a fire red for the inside of the dolmen where a fire might be.
With luck I’ll do the masters this weekend
Dolmen work
It’s been a while since I’ve really been in the lab. After the first of the year I got really caught up in the Irish dancing events that Susan and I are involved with, did some travelling for work and then got sucked into the Irish dance St. Patrick’s "season."
Finally there’s a lull and I can get back to working on a dolmen hologram that I’ve had on the back-burner for three years.