{"id":446,"date":"2016-04-17T05:09:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T05:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart_D16\/?p=446"},"modified":"2016-04-17T05:09:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T05:09:42","slug":"progress-report-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart_D16\/2016\/04\/17\/progress-report-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress Report 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Progress Report 1<\/p>\n

I started thinking about materials and implementation. The main parts of the design will be: 3D glasses, paper (or similar) to project through, a transparent water tray, light sources, and some kind of frame or scaffolding to hold everything in place.<\/p>\n

I ordered 50 3D glasses for only 40\u00a2 from American paper optics.<\/p>\n

For the transparent water tray, I immediately thought of a Pyrex baking dish, but these are small. Then I thought of ripple tanks for physics experiments, but all of the ones on amazon and ebay come with vibrating wave makers which make them expensive. Then I found some youtube videos of how to make your own aquarium from Plexiglas and special solvent cement. This seems cheapest and not too hard. Maybe I can figure out how to laser cut the Plexiglas \u2013 I see robotics majors do it all the time.<\/p>\n

I first pictured the light sources as spotlights. However, these must be far from the subject to create hard shadows. I needed a point source such as a very bright LED. I needed to find an unusually bright LED to experiment with, so I took apart my alarm clock (see below) and used the one inside.<\/p>\n

\"alarm\u00a0\"alarm<\/p>\n

It created very crisp shadows, unlike my desk lamp.<\/p>\n

\"hard<\/p>\n

I was worried about finding the exact red and exact cyan that would be compatible with the 3D glasses. I came up with a clever solution: just use white LEDs and filter the color with a second pair of 3D glasses. I then ordered some white 10 lumen LED\u2019s (which is apparently very bright) from a website called superbrightleds.com. Aptly named!<\/p>\n

Finally I thought about the frame or scaffolding. I have seen reusable metal prototyping channels, called 80 20, used in several MQP\u2019s and at my summer job. They would be ideal, but unfortunately it would cost about $70 for the amount I want. A cheaper alternative is to make something structural out of cardboard. While it sounds like a weak material, it can be quite sturdy when there is enough of it. Prof. Rosenstock suggested PVC which I think is a great idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Progress Report 1 I started thinking about materials and implementation. The main parts of the design will be: 3D glasses, paper (or similar) to project through, a transparent water tray, light sources, and some kind of frame or scaffolding to hold everything in place. I ordered 50 3D glasses for only 40\u00a2 from American paper … Continue reading “Progress Report 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart_D16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart_D16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart_D16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart_D16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart_D16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart_D16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart_D16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart_D16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart_D16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart_D16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}