Sentences with phrase «deformable so»

The secondary mirrors are deformable so that they can correct for the distortions of light caused by ripples in the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

So the researchers decided that the only way to build a deformable robot would be to develop a material that can switch between a soft and hard state, Hosoi says.

Reaching a seamless synergy among this holy trinity — high - performance coronagraph, deformable mirror and instrumental stability — is so formidable it has scarcely been achieved in laboratories here on Earth, and has never even been attempted on a telescope in space.

In the future, the scientists intend to further develop their method so that it will also work on deformable objects and larger scenes.

So astronomers use adaptive optics, in which deformable mirrors correct for atmospheric distortion, and instruments called coronagraphs to blot out the starlight.

When we got something that was soft and deformable, we simply created a zone that was compressed and resisted the excavation in the center and just sheered, so we had a crater with a little mound in the bottom.

«Because [SS2 cells] are deformable, they have a larger contact area with the vessel wall, and so they stick better,» Karniadakis said.

The changed vehicle mix and high risks to occupants of side - struck vehicles when the striking vehicles are SUVs or pickups led the Institute to modify the moving deformable barrier used in the federal test so the front end represents the geometry of a typical SUV or pickup.

According to SEGA the game will feature «revolutionary dynamically deformable terrain», so basically we should expect a lot of mud, gravel, snow and dust effects, with proper ruts in the courses on repeated contact with tyres, which seems like an obvious and justified design decision.