For my own project, I found four ideas I was interested in pursuing further.
- Cloud chamber
- Sugar light polarizing
- Shadow projection cube
- large 3D printed lampshade installation
Cloud chambers are usually a transparent box that contains supersaturated alcohol vapor. When radiation passes through, it gives enough energy to the alcohol vapor to condense it into mist, leaving a visible trail that the radiation took.
I simply think it looks amazing, and visualizing comic background radiation is so cool! Unfortunately, cloud chambers can be fairly difficult to set up and expensive, as they have to be very cold.
Sugar Polarizing, with a polarizing filter, sugar water can twist light, make a rainbow barber pole.
Twisting the filter makes the rainbow rotate and can change the color of light exiting the tube.
A Shadow Cube is simply a light in a box that has some cutouts to make projections on the room around it. I thought that making the box move around the light inside would cause some interesting projections and shadows.
3D printed lampshades are thinly printed so that light can pass through them easily. I want to create a hanging system so I can make almost a chandelier of them.
I have many designs I’ve already made and could reuse, but I might like to make new designs for this project. I printed them in PLA and with one wall loop. It would be really awesome if it got displayed on campus, maybe outside the 3d print lab? This is definitely my favorite project, but the others would also be amazing to see.
