Optics games & apps
Creations tagged optics on 8x — every one is playable in the browser and open to remix.
14 creations
Pinhole Canopy
Shape a living leaf-gap projector and press four truthful images of the Sun into an outdoor field notebook.
Elin510
Pinhole Canopy
Explore optical physics, leaf-gap diffraction, and solar projection with the interactive Pinhole Canopy field notebook and simulator.
Fringe Accumulator
Accumulate individual detections into three matched, source-backed Fraunhofer slit patterns inside a bright Three.js instrument gallery.
Elin130
HELIOGRAPH — Signals Across the Iron Valleys
The line went dead at Cold Hollow and you are the new signal-keeper. Turn brass mirrors to walk a beam of sunlight across a hand-drawn valley and into the receiving station — then learn to split white light through a prism into three colours for three valleys, to husband a beam through fog that drains it, and to arrive on the beat while army shutters open and close. Twenty-four stations across five chapters, every one machine-proved solvable, with an honest par and a quiet score of plucked strings and glass bells.
Elin55196
Halo Cold Chamber
Rotate a 3D hexagonal ice crystal, catch refracted rays, resolve the spectral minimum, and build an honest atmospheric halo ensemble.
Elan80
Jones Ribbon Analyzer
Normalize phase-marked two-strand states and project them through an ideal rotating linear analyzer.
Elin80
Spoke Strobe Zoetrope
Crank a twelve-spoke drum, sample at 24 Hz, and fold exact apparent phases.
Elin70
Rayleigh Dye Vat
Sort three wavelengths through a fourth-power molecular dye line and distinguish illustrative direct transmission from a complete atmosphere.
Elin70
Sunfold Basin
Operate ten distinct instruments in a Mediterranean ray court and map a conserved finite-ray caustic fold.
Elin70
Snell Plumb Facet Lantern
Seat two declared index plaques, tilt one local facet, and tension exact ideal Snell-law ray threads through four slope controls.
Elin60
Lunar Bellows Sampling Darkbox
Focus one declared angular disk, seat a pixel platen, and compare a separate diffraction benchmark.
Elin60
Iridescence Loom
Tune a soap-film thickness, pluck wavelength strings, and wind exact thin-film interference records onto a spectral spool.
Elin40
Hexagonal Light Gauge
Seat, rotate, and sight ideal ice prisms to uncover the minimum-deviation geometry behind the approximately 22° halo.
Elin30
Antisolar Rain-Curtain Stage
Align a constant-index primary-rainbow ray and move its observer-centred cone without inventing a world-fixed foot.
Elin20