Please, enjoy some more Dollywood, from our Monday visit, and seeing something remarkable ... sort of ...
The Gazillion Bubble Show, we'd learn, was actually quite an experience we'd have done well to see. But we didn't know that then and, anyway, the show wasn't running Mondays.
But to help us see the appeal they set up as sculptures this Amiga graphics rendering demo of the 90s.
So, like, if the whole universe had a lattice of regularly-spaced reflective balls of the same size could you stand anywhere and be able to see anywhere in the universe if you picked just the right direction?
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bunnyhugger trying to get her version of that picture above.
The balls still have waterdrops from the rainstorm earlier and that adds to the number of reflections going on.
And here you get a picture of the theater with the Gazillion Bubble Show, photographed in a mirror.
Back to walking around the park. Here's a waterfall leading down towards a duck pond.
Oh, and here's the glass-blowing station, where they have not only a regular glass-blowing staff but posters telling you who's who, and the steps involved in blowing glass. And they even have labels for the different ovens. Why, look, here, it's ...
The 2100-degree pot furnace (snicker), and then ...
Oh uh all right, the 2400-degree glory hole oh let's try and not be so immature and see what they're going to lay on us for the third one ...
Oh. OK, the 950-degree Annealer.
And here's a bit of glass being annealed or such; you can't quite feel the heat through this but it's implied.
Trivia: In his 123-stanza poem the fifth/sixth-century Indian mathematician Aryabhata provides a way to know the value of pi:
Add 4 to 100, multiply by 8, and add 62,000. The result is approximately the circumference fo a circle of which the diameter is 20,000.Source: The Calendar: The 5000-Year Struggle to Align the Clock with the Heavens --- And What Happened to the Missing Ten Days, David Ewing Duncan. The value is 3.1416, good enough for four digits. I assume it's not so leaden in the origical Sanskrit.
Currently Reading: To Touch The Face Of God: The Sacred, the Profane, and the American Space Program, 1957 - 1975, Kendrick Oliver.
