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Tade0 on Nov 3, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Proxima Fusion looks to take stellarators commerci...

When I first saw a picture of the Wendelstein 7-X I could not make sense of it - it was really like some kind of alien artifact.

And when you think what it actually does then 50 years ago, back when they were merely a concept, it could have passed as one.

scotty79 on Nov 3, 2023 [–]

I think humans have very limited capacity for reconstruction of 3d object from 2d image for anything beyond basic shapes or something they encountered extensively in real world.

Viewing 3d model of 7-X might be easier to comprehend.

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