Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It works best to have the light coming from a point source and then refining it with a slit to allow a band of light to enter the prism. But it's really not rocket surgery and prisms do work just fine as my kitchen window demonstrates every morning with rainbows floating around the wall from morning sun shining through prisms of various configurations. It's a pretty wonderful thing to switch from the time to the frequency domain through a piece of glass! Adam On 2011 Sep 16, at 4:28 AM, Peter Cheyne wrote: > Tomorrow I'll give an 8 year old boy a gift of a small prism , so he can > have fun making rainbows. However, after playing with it myself for a > couple of hours, I can't even get a spectrum myself. > I imagined it wouldn't be too hard to recreate the cover of Pink Floyd's > Dark Side of the Moon. > > Has anyone done this before? Any tips to pass on to the young lad? > > Thanks, > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information