My son gets cool ideas every now and then, and this one was sticky cool! What happens when you balance a bottle of glue on a flashlight… and then turn it on? All kinds of cool things happen, that’s what:
Click on the pic for a larger image. What we’re seeing here is a whole lotta things: We have diffuse reflection all over the place, we have direct transmission (both through the clear plastic bottle and through the clear glue), which gives us refraction, we have diffuse transmission… you name it. The only thing I’m pretty sure we don’t have here is direct reflection, since as far as I can see there’s no way to get direct reflection (the angles don’t work).
Not bad, huh? Next up, some killer tomatoes ;-)
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