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10-28-2012, 12:49 PM
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Side-Kick
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Real Bat-Signal?
Since it was used in the Nolan Trilogy. Does a floodlight (Batsignal) actually work in real life? What I mean is, if you took a huge spotlight like the one typically shown in Batman movies and put a bat symbol on it like shown, would it actually create a bat symbol in the sky? Would you be able to make it out? Or would it be all blurry?
Sounds like a job for Mythbusters... |
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10-28-2012, 12:51 PM
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Side-Kick
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Re: Real Bat-Signal?
You wouldn't. You'd get a spotlight with maybe a dark blur in the middle. A projector is more like what the signal would need to be.
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10-28-2012, 01:12 PM
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Re: Real Bat-Signal?
Yeah, they show in The Dark Knight what it would look like, a mess, which is why Gordon was able to pass it off as a "defective piece of equipment".
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10-28-2012, 02:36 PM
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Re: Real Bat-Signal?
They attempted to use one for real if I remember Nolan saying somewhere, and it just didnt work.
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10-28-2012, 03:37 PM
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10-28-2012, 11:16 PM
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11-04-2012, 06:13 PM
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Re: Real Bat-Signal?
You could probably get a sharper bat symbol in the sky if you used lots of laserspointers instead of one large light though, the reason it's so fuzzy is because the light spreads, with a bunch of lasers you'd get a lot more focus I think. Then again unless you have something to project it on it'll probably be fuzzy anyway so...
Still, when Batman sees the big spotlight on the police HQ's roof shining I doubt he cares wether it's projecting a bat, cat or a mermaid, he'll get the jist of it... |
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