I agree. It's hard to get faithful photos of the CD47. Maybe because it's large and thus more 3D than most Nixie tubes.
In person they do not look weird at all. The digits are very well shaped; a unique and attractive "font". They are gorgeous and gigantic. I share again the positive leap second photo: http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/CD47/ /tvb Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 18, 2020, at 7:57 AM, Paul Andrews <p...@nixies.us> wrote: > > This. > > Plus, the CD47 might look fuggly in photos, but once it is in front of you > and lit up, it is a whole different kettle of fish. > >> On Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 4:47:52 PM UTC-5 nickja...@gmail.com wrote: >> TOO LARGE, say what? This reminds of the doinks at Best Buy or somewhere, >> when you're looking at a TV and they ask well, how big is the room? Which >> is of course irrelevant. Will it physically fit into the room? Then it >> isn't too big! >> >>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 5:48 AM Ⓙⓞⓗⓝ Ⓢⓜⓞⓤⓣ <j...@jsdesign.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> I spent 45 years in design of one sort or another, from model-making for >>> museums, films and the telly, architecture, interior design, museum and >>> permanent exhibition design to graphic design and advertising. I don't >>> suppose my opinion counts for anything, however I really like the >>> compressed digit shapes of the CD47, possibly because they are so unique. >>> Having inspected a set of these tubes close up, I still like the look of >>> them. Would I ever want some? No, they are far too large for a domestic >>> interior. I think Dalibor's tubes are the ideal maximum size. >>> >>> John S >>> >>> >>> On 16/12/2020 13:58, Yohan Park wrote: >>> Couldn't agree more :) >>> Bigger doesn't always mean prettier. >>> The digits look vertically stretched just to make them fit in the tube. >>> If you'd scale this down to the size of a more common tube I bet most of us >>> would say it's an ugly tube :) >>> Impressive? Yes! Pretty? No! >>> But like you, I would sure want one just for the impressive size alone! >>> >> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "neonixie-l" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to neonixie-l+...@googlegroups.com. >> >>> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/b989f4da-39e9-5556-36fb-c30028bde5b7%40jsdesign.co.uk. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/a991b2f3-9c80-4e86-97f7-878025a48f69n%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/50132D6D-DDD5-4B38-A7F4-02A005B5C647%40leapsecond.com.
