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A Short Introduction to Automotive Lidar
A clear guide to how lidar works in self-driving cars, covering time of flight, scanning methods, wavelengths and the tr…
Abelardo Morell
Photographs from rooms turned into camera obscuras, with city skylines projected across bedroom walls, plus tent-camera…
Anything Will Lase If You Hit It Hard Enough
A pedantic guide to the physics of lasers, featuring gin, Jell-O, and peacocks, explaining how almost any material can b…
Diffractive Chocolate
Instructions and the science behind chocolate with a microscopic grating that splits light into rainbow colors, from the…
DVD Laser Scanner Microscope
A DIY project that turns the laser pickup heads from DVD drives into a scanning laser microscope, with the build details…
Focusing on Blue
A visual explainer exploring why the human eye can never quite bring the color blue into focus, and how the brain fills…
Herb's Astronomy Stuff
A retired amateur astronomer's page of telescopes, optics and homemade gear from his active 1990s observing days, shown…
Kimchi and Chips
The Seoul art studio Kimchi and Chips shows installations made of light, mirrors and machines, from an artificial moon o…
Laser Pointer Safety
A practical reference on laser pointer hazards and laws, with test results, eye injury facts, and tips for using lasers…
MicroscopyU
Nikon's educational hub explaining microscope techniques and optics, illustrated with a huge gallery of fluorescence and…
Mojoptix 001: Digital Sundial
A maker video and write-up about a 3D-printed sundial whose carefully arranged holes cast a shadow that spells out the c…
Pablo Garcia
Projects by artist Pablo Garcia exploring drawing machines and optics, including the NeoLucida, a revived camera lucida,…
Ray Optics Simulation
An interactive physics simulation of light reflecting and refracting through mirrors and lenses, letting you place eleme…
Sage Ransom
A personal site with a playable optics simulation where you move lenses and light sources, plus photography, writing and…
Stellafane Amateur Telescope Making
The home of the Springfield Telescope Makers, with classic guides to grinding your own mirror and building a telescope,…
The Limits of Computational Photography
An engineer tries to photograph fine laser etching on optical equipment and discovers how smartphone image processing in…
The Photonics Spotlight
A blog from the RP Photonics team presenting interesting materials and thoughts on photonics and laser technology, from…
What Is a Zero Refractive Index Material?
A physicist explains what happens to light in a material with refractive index zero, where waves stop oscillating in spa…
Zen Photon Garden
An interactive raytracer art-toy where you draw walls of mirrors and glass and watch photons paint glowing light pattern…
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