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It's pretty clever, the setup they have that found this thing. It's an *elegant* algorithmic solution to the problem, "how do you measure what angle gamma radia
by perihelions 4y ago
It's pretty clever, the setup they have that found this thing. It's an *elegant* algorithmic solution to the problem, "how do you measure what angle gamma radiation is arriving from, if you can't* bend, focus, or reflect it; only block it?"
https://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/about_swift/bat_desc.html https://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/about_swift/bat_desc.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coded_aperture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coded_aperture
- dontwearitout 4y agoIt took me a minute to grok the pictures on that wiki page, but I love this! Super creative solution