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Lenses and Maggies

Greg Weaver and others use the "noodle lens" format for Maggies. Just a foam tube on a base behind them. Those who like the noodles are using only the diffusion and diffraction at most, but seem to like this with those planars. You might want to experiment with this as it's extremely easy and cheap to do.

Here's what I recommended to David Aiken when he was experimenting: use PVC pipes as usual, but put them on a simple wooden base. Screw a PVC flat pipe cap to a 3"X3" or so wooden piece of 2" lumber; friction mount the pipe on the cap/base. Make each one separately. Then use several to move them around and experiment with different placements and configurations of spacing. True, this doesn't provide for stuffing, but that can come later when you've found the ideal configuration for you and you remove the pipes and put them on a proper open base.

He swears by his quadratic and root configs and they're worth your trying...

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