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THE KALEIDOSCOPE.

THE KALEIDOSCOPE.

A powerful toy that caught my attention was the kaleidoscope. This little gadget was an optical striking effect on my imagination, I spent many hours watching as they appeared and changed the figures that he produced.

much curiosity was aroused in me, I ended screwdriver to get my hands on those beautiful images. I had a disappointment to ensure that these figures do not change that existed in his hand were a few cuts irregular bits of colored plastic, a small tin foil and a tube with a mirror.

40 years after the kaleidoscope continues to exert on me the same fascination that I woke up at that time. Recalling distant memory that I wanted to play the toy for personal enjoyment and that of my daughters. The materials needed for its preparation are easy to find.

Materials:

plastic tube drainage basin, with inner diameter of 1 ½ " x 20 cm in length. Top

a transparent CD holder box.

A CD.

Three strips of mirrors 12 x 2.5 cm.

Accounts (beads, sequins, Swarovski) to make necklaces of various sizes and colors.

The production of the kaleidoscope, the first thing to do is draw on the transparent cover CD holder diameters of the caps to contain the material notions (accounts for necklaces), then cut these discs as shown in the image . The cut was made with a knife, hot enough to melt plastic.

The image below shows these disks.

Because the discs are to be modeled on the measurement of transparent acrylic, the same should be lowered and rounded up to the proper diameter to fit tightly at the ends of the tube. This is done with sandpaper.

smaller diameter disc frosted it, this album does feature frosted diffuser that does not appear in the kaleidoscope of images from the outside when we are looking into it.

plastic tube cut it into two parts as shown. The longest tube length (the one diameter), is slightly greater than the length of the mirrors.

remove burrs from the cutting and place product in the end that has widened the most transparent disk of larger diameter.

introduce in this tube (which you placed the plastic disk) the accounts and beads.

Make this, place the ground disk as a cover, as close to the other drive without dam to the beads. The exact amount of beads and sequins give us the experience we to obtain the fantastic images that reproduce the kaleidoscope.

The three mirrors placed them forming a triangle so that the reflective side faces the inside and join them with silicone or other adhesive.

This prism of mirrors we introduce into the long tube.

Placed mirrors, insert the tube segment containing the beads.

Al CD we cut off the center and to use debase as a cover, 'll look around in the kaleidoscope.

This concludes our kaleidoscope.

With this small kaleidoscope can spend hours enjoying the fantastic images that appear in it.

We can do many tests with the kaleidoscope to obtain many different results, for example by taking longer and placing a bulkhead in the compartment of the beads, obtain other effects not less fantastic.

The number and size of visual elements of color will also alter the optical effect the outcome, so that to achieve good effects have to do several tests and have the patience to do so, but the pleasure that is achieved once perfected our toy is indescribable ... ...

Disclaimer and the images are sharp only in the center of the field of view would be the center of the triangle formed by the mirrors. This distortion or blurring of the reflected images is due to the use of mirrors "normal", where the reflective layer (the silver) is at the bottom of the glass and not on the top, so that the reflections have to go through the glass , where in turn produce additional reflections. As a result we observe the turbidity of the images become more pronounced to the extent that our angle of vision away from the center. This issue is fixed if we use mirrors with the reflective layer on the glass or the mirror substrate.