GP Series by VapourArt - Contest for GP Spheroid 22 mm

[Elad500]

Monolith
a large single upright block of stone, esp. one shaped into or serving as a pillar or monument.

 

[bots]

my god - it's full of stars

 

[perseas]

Perseas, I'm not sure how many names a single person can post...but here is my second entry

The GP MEGASPHERE - The origin of the prefix mega- is an ancient Greek word which meant “great, large.”

Every person can post as many names as he can think!

 

[l_strider_l]

oblate spheroid

 

[ln617]

Synoptic
Synoptic is derived from the Greek words σύν (syn "together") and ὄψις (opsis "view"),

I can't keep track of whats already been mentioned or not, so sorry if this is being repeated.

 

[Pathology]

The Ark....

 

[LouEyez]

The Athenian... for obvious reasons

 

[Woody7781]

Hey what setup are you rocking there?
Oh, this is my GP Paps/Pinnacle combo.

 

[Izan]

Simple:

Spheroid-X



Thanks
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[1w15h1w45m0ngu]

Rotunda
Cupola
Vault
Globe
Celestiod
Orb
Atmo-spheroid (I'm a fan of this one because the atmosphere is where the clouds are hehe)
Bio-spheroid
Exo-spheroid
Iono-spheroid
Meso-spheroid
Litho-spheroid
Strato-spheroid
Thermo-spheroid
Chromo-sphere
Pyro-spheroid (the pyrosphere = hot center of the earth)

That's all I've got for now. Hope you guys find an excellent name for the new product!

 

[Idaholandho]

Hey what setup are you rocking there?
Oh, this is my GP Paps/Pinnacle combo.

Nice one Whoodchipper! But, I am not sure this is conducive to speech after one of our local drunkards has been enjoying the spirits .

 

[Woody7781]

Nice one Whoodchipper! But, I am not sure this is conducive to speech after one of our local drunkards has been enjoying the spirits .

It would damn sure be funny getting them to repeat it though.

 

[danimal40]

how about prolate which is a elongated spheroid

 

[danimal40]

or ovoid staying with the oid ending

 

[Elad500]

GP Virtu or Vertu or VER2
-a taste or love for curios or works of fine art; connoisseurship
-the quality of being rare, beautiful, or otherwise appealing to a connoisseur

 

[Kataphraktos]

The Sheldon



...as in Sheldon Cooper

Well, there's already a Penny, so...

 

[landman2k1]

The Sheldon



...as in Sheldon Cooper

This should be the name of a copper mod, lol. The Sheldon Copper.

 

[morri]

Spira Mirabilis which means wonderful spiral, which may or may not have anything to do with your wonderful new GP Spheroid.

but.............

it sounds very cool. giggle

 

[perseas]

My other thought is The Heron after Hero of Alexandria that is credited with the invention of the aeolipile. I say Heron and not Hero because Heron is an acceptable alternative and there are already devices call the Hero.

I think we have a winner here

HERON will be the name of GP Spheroid 22/23 atomizer to honour the Heron of Alexandria.

Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria (c. AD 10–70) was an ancient Hellene mathematician and engineer who was active in his native city of Alexandria, Roman Egypt. He is considered the greatest experimenter of antiquity and his work is representative of the Hellenistic scientific tradition.

He's best known for what we call Hero's turbine -- a steam-driven whirligig that worked a little like a modern jet engine. He did mechanics, astronomy, and math. It is almost certain that Heron taught at the Musaeum which included the famous Library of Alexandria, because most of his writings appear as lecture notes for courses in mathematics, mechanics, physics and pneumatics. Although the field was not formalised until the 20th century, it is thought that the work of Hero, his automated devices in particular, represents some of the first formal research into cybernetics.

You see, Hero invented feedback control devices. His self-filling wine bowl, for example, had a hidden float valve that automatically sensed the level of wine in a bowl. When guests ladled out wine, the bowl mysteriously refilled itself.

That's called a closed feedback loop. Egyptian inventors had been making gadgets like that for 300 years before Heron. They'd made feedback-controlled water-clocks and lamp-fillers.

By the time Heron lived, 2000 years ago, Rome had annexed Egypt, and intellectual freedom gave way to imperial authority. Heron was the end of an inventive age. Not 'til the 1600s was another feedback device invented. Feedback meant letting go of control -- letting a machine make its own decisions. Authoritarian minds don't like that.

Heron had set up a do-loop for what we call an iterative solution. The same person who worked with feedback control loops now gives us a wonderful computer do-loop. In either case we start a process and then let it pass out of our hands.

Heron's story has a moral: we have no freedom without letting go of control.

Heron ... was the last breath of a Golden Age in North Africa. It'd be 1600 years before math, mechanics, and human affairs would catch up with that fragile inventive freedom we sell so easily for security -- that we sell to satisfy our need to stay in control.


Vapourart uses the symbol of aeolipile as our trademarked insignia from the beginning, because we are great admirers of this Hellene scientist.

Sources:

Hero of Alexandria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
No. 1038: Hero of Alexandria
Heron of Alexandria - Ancient Machines

 

[perseas]

Thank you so much all of you guys and gals for your participation, many names were really tempting for us to use and very well thought!