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What space do the pieces of the gate iris go into? There is nothing to be seen when the iris is in the open position.

Was this ever explained or depicted? Or it is just out-of-universe limitations of CGI early in the series that they just gloss over forever?

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  • I'm sure someone can post some screen captures... – ThePopMachine Sep 22 '14 at 15:10
  • @Himarm: Geometrically, it can't fold down to a shape like that. Possibly at all, and definitely without thousands of pieces. It's not depicted that way. – ThePopMachine Sep 22 '14 at 15:12
  • It appears to work the same way as the iris of a lens. – Gorchestopher H Sep 22 '14 at 15:19
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    It's all pretty well explained http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_technology_in_Stargate#Iris – bdimag Sep 22 '14 at 15:20
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    It's stored in the Stargate's bag of holding. – BBlake Sep 22 '14 at 15:48
  • @ThePopMachine - why do you think it's geometrically impossible? As shown in the animated gif in the wiki article, you can still see a circular band of metal when the iris is open, so if each of the individual blades is no wider than than that band, it doesn't seem geometrically impossible that they could fold in that way by rotating their long axis from a radial direction to a tangential one. – Hypnosifl Sep 22 '14 at 16:14
  • @Hypnosifl The width of the "blades" (radially) is wider than the width of the "band" (axially). Even on the small animated GIFs you can see that. – ThePopMachine Sep 22 '14 at 17:12
  • @ThePopMachine - yes, looking at it again it seems you're right. – Hypnosifl Sep 22 '14 at 17:14
  • It would require a close-up shot to confirm, but as I recall there is a gap on the inside of the ring which the metal could conceivably slide into. – Brian S Sep 22 '14 at 17:46
  • @calccrypto: possible duplicate? That is a duplicate. Agreed. – ThePopMachine Sep 22 '14 at 19:09

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