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Optics, Light & Color

Optics, Light & Color

Discover the fascinating aspects of light and color! Light illuminates everything we see around us. Color, which is light of different wavelengths and frequencies, dominates our lives. Investigate how white light can be shaped to generate the colors of the rainbow and how animation is created!

Phosphorus Board

Phosphorus Board

Watch as electromagnetic radiation helps a phosphorus coated board "remember" the shape of your hand, after you've removed it.

Stereoscope

Can a 2-D picture turn into a 3-D one? Look into the device with both eyes: each eye separately see a 2-D image. Put together, both eyes see a 3-D one.

Laser Refraction

$Laser Refraction$

observe the angles of refraction of various laser beams as they break through the water's surface into the air

Light Refraction

$Light Refraction$

Observe the angles of refraction of various light beams as they break through the water's surface into the air

Optic Table

Place various shaped lenses by the source of lights, observing the way in which they affect the light’s scattering and deflection.

Camera Obscura

Capture the essence of human eyesight and the origin behind the first camera. Observe the world "upside down" and right to left.

One Way Mirror

Observe what happend when light is directed above, below or directly behind the mirror.

Entoptic Phenomena

Entoptic Phenomena

Look into the device, and through the special mechanism installed inside, view an enlarged reflection of the moving red blood cells in your own gazing eye.

Screen-less Slide

Screen-less Slide

Can you watch a movie without a screen? Turn the wheel faster and faster, and watch a screen-less picture sequence form before you eyes

White Light Dispersion

White Light Dispersion

Experience the dispersion of white light by observing how white light is passed through a prism and spills out in a rainbow of colors.

Distorting Mirrors

Distorting Mirrors

Observe the way your reflection changes through various distorting mirrors

Infinity Mirrors

Infinity Mirrors

Gaze into one mirror, with the second one behind you. The two mirrors, set precisely opposite one another, reflect each other's image endlessly.

Newton's Color Wheel

Newton's Color Wheel

Learn how the human eye mixes colors to form new ones, and notice that when all colors are spun togehter - the oustcome is white

Mechanical Stroboscope

Mechanical Stroboscope

Turn the larger wheel and look through the rotating slots until the lines on the smaller wheel appear stationary.

Kaleidoscope

Stand inside the large kaleidoscope, surrounded by mirrors. When you move, the mirrors reflect the change many times over in symmetric patterns.

Anamorphosis

Look at the distorted image on the plane, and see how it all comes together clearly on the central pole - a cylindrical convex mirror.

Stroboscope

Control a steadily flickering light illuminating the water drops, and make them either stand still in mid-air or climb back to the faucet!

Optic Fibers

Transfer white and colored lights through plastic tubes which simulate optics fibers in action

Polarized Light

Polarized Light

A white light is projected through two polarizing sheets. Turn both sheets in opposite directions, until only a sliver of light shines through.

RGB Lights Wall

RGB Lights Wall

Light up three colored lights, and observe the infinite number of colors that are created from different variations.

Periscope

See that which is concelaed from view with this device, used as the "searching eye" of submarines!

Angled Mirrors

Move one of the angled mirrors and watch how the colorful geometric shapes change - much like a kaleidoscope.