Re: Re: Re: Zone plate question

----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Glorieux" <guy.glorieux@sympatico.ca>

> Not to take this group too seriously from an academic point of view, but
it may be the best agora/forum to discuss and come up with a nickname that
fits the specific requirements of the pinhole community, recognizing that
the scientific community may have a more formal name for their own
requirements.

It seems to me that the scientific community is very relax this day and age,
I don't see anything formal about zone plate or sieve, the latter is almost
taken from cooking terms, they might as well had named it colander :)
Having said that, I agree, it isn't a bad idea to baptise the stuff we use
the way we want.

I baptise thee with dektol and your name in Spanish shall be known as "Placa
de Zonas Fresnel", If anyone in this mailing list has any reason why these
lens-less should not be known as mentioned, speak up now or forever hold
your peace. :-)

> After all, if some names in the dictionnary are listed as having two very
different meanings, why should'nt the same object have two different names?

It looks like that is the case even in the French scientific community, so
why not a more mundane community like the one of such esoteric people
practisers of a very obscure forms of photography, that's us, BTW.

> Guillermo, you're just baffling! How many languages do you know/speak all
together?

I hope you meant bluffing, cause I'd never baffle, not here anyway! :-)
How many languages? to tell you the truth, I no longer think I speak any as
I haven't really finish learning English and I am forgetting my Spanish. I
tried learning French but had too much trouble with the guttural sounds, all
in all I am becoming a mute!

> Where do you get these esoteric sources?

Ever heard of Internet...just kidding, but not really, if you search with
arguments like synchrotron, soft X-rays, macroscopy, etc, then you get tons
of other links that you don't get when you just search for zone plate.

> Zone Plate = Cercles-Fresnel
> Zone Sieve = Grille-Fresnel
> Photon Sieve = Grille-Photon

Looks good to me and I am pretty sure they also, as most things in French,
sound better than in English, or as a friend of mine would say, better than
they really are, case in point, he would say: Soup du jour (most of the
time from the day before :-)

Guillermo

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Received on Sat Mar 20 18:37:26 2004