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Eclipse pinhole viewer
An eclipse pinhole viewer: a long box with a foil plate and pinhole at the sun end and a white screen at the other, tipped up on a stand.
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Added
- 23 October 2026
- Films
- Not used in a film yet
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Range | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| scale | number | 1 | 1 to 25 x | enlargement: 1 is a box viewer 1 m long, 10 makes it 10 m long |
| length | number | 1 | 0.5 to 1.6 m | length of the box from the pinhole plate to the open end, at scale 1 |
| width | number | 0.22 | 0.12 to 0.4 m | the box's width and height (a square section) at scale 1 |
| wall | number | 0.02 | 0.01 to 0.03 m | thickness of the box walls (thicker than card, so they read at a distance) |
| pinhole | number | 0.014 | 0.006 to 0.04 m | side of the square hole in the foil plate; real pinholes are a few millimetres |
| tilt | number | 35 | 0 to 60 deg | how far the pinhole end is tipped up toward the sun |
| mount | choice | tripod | tripod, plate | stand on three splayed legs, or on a round base plate |
| image | bool | true | – | show the sun's partly eclipsed image on the white screen |
| box | color | #c7ad7d | – | the box's card; a channel's seed turns its hue |
| foil | color | #b8bcc2 | – | the foil plate at the sun end |
| screen | color | #f4f1e8 | – | the white screen at the viewing end |
| sunImage | color | #f0b43a | – | the sun's image on the screen |
| stand | color | #4a4e55 | – | the stand: joint, pedestal, legs or plate |
Use it in a film
film.js
world: { props: { prop: { model: 'pinhole-viewer', at: [6, -4] } } }Use it from your agent
Ask your agent to put it in a film. It finds the element by name.