In our foyer hangs this light fixture. I put two red and green gels on it for Christmas, and I haven’t really gotten around to taking them down. Mainly because I don’t want to. Anyways, I think it’s really interesting how the lights don’t mix. As we learned, the human eye cannot distinguish between lights that are at the same angle, close enough together. This can be great for color mix, which did not happen. I just thought it was cool (as I did something like this for Halloween). Then I realized that I don’t know why the lights are doing this. Perhaps it is because they are little LED bulbs. Or maybe it is because of the cut of the glass.
The glass is cut a at a light angle all around the pieces of glass. The separate pieces of glass are all at an angle from each other due to the curving of the metal that is between the pieces. It made me think of the curvature of the lens we talk about two weeks ago. I’m not sure if that has a direct relation to the lack of color mixing, but it has made me ponder. In the picture, you can see how the two lights are in a way fractured. Due to the structure of the glass exterior, I draw the conclusion that the light are totally at the same angle, or the light is at least fractured enough that it does not mix.
The above pictures of a cork craving my grandfather brought back with him from China. This setting was all carved from one piece of cork. When the sun was low enough, it shined through our french doors, causing a setting sun for the artwork. It was cool to look at it a little model. The shadows of the light are pretty accurate to what this scene would look like in the real world.
Turn off everything except that lamp - look away from it at the back of your hand and you will see color mixing
ReplyDeleteYou are looking at it incorrectly - if we have two lights at the same angle in theatre and we look into them, we will always see both colors - it is where the light is cast that the blending happens