The way the cells are aligned will cause the quarter-sawn board to shrink a little bit in width and very little in thickness. |
The grey colour of quartz is a mineralogical standard showing that the thickness is correct. |
But the predominance and thickness of the sheltering walls recalls the adobe. |
All these prototypes were shaped into panels of various commercial thicknesses with a steam-heated platen press. |
The overburden at some points compressed twelve-inch overhead crosspieces, or caps, to two-inch thicknesses in a year. |
There is, of course, no change to the on-axis response since no lens curvatures or thicknesses were changed. |