Beholding a Rotating Beacon
In this paper, the following illumination problem is considered: a beam of light, rotating counterclockwise at angular speed \(w\), illuminates spots on an island (plane, convex, smooth set), and one assumes that light travels at finite speed \(c\); one wants to find out from which points, called ordinary points, is the illuminated spot seen to be moving counterclockwise. The authors come to the conclusion that the set of the ordinary points, that they identify, clearly depends on the angular speed \(w\), and it will be empty for big values of \(w\) unless the island has the shape of an ellipse and the beam comes from one of its focuses. As a by-product, they find a simple away to parametrize an envelope of lines and a curious parametrization of an ellipse by the reciprocal of the distance of each point to one of its focuses.
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