![]() Whatever it is that you are making, I hope that you have fun today. What fun! Making the kaleidoscope, and experimenting with it was one of those interesting experiences of really getting to think through things.Īnd my wee kaleidoscope has certainly inspired me to think differently about pattern repeats, reflections, symmetry, stars and hexagons The kaleidoscope we made was from an inexpensive kit, intended for a child We had enormous fun experimenting and creating creating beautiful aesthetic effects from very ordinary tiny things – a few beads, some scraps of cut paper. and Tom very much enjoyed the kaleidoscope’s image-making opportunities. I personally found that making the kaleidoscope was a very interesting and thought-provoking process! Like Brewster’s original device, ours involved a short tube, some angled mirrors, and a few wee objects to reflect. While rotating your camera, you create images with varies colours and beautiful symmetrical patterns. It operate on the principle of multiple reflection. Science Museum.Ī while ago, Tom and I decided to have a go at making our own kaleidoscope. It allows you to take photos through a kaleidoscope. I find it fascinating too! image from 1817 Brewster kaleidoscope. Nineteenth-century folk clearly found the kaleidoscope’s combination of repeating patterns, circular shapes, and reflective symmetry deeply fascinating. ![]() Science Museum.īrewster’s portable pattern-viewing device proved to be immediately, ridiculously popular: before he could patent his kaleidoscope, over two-hundred thousand copies had been made and sold (at no benefit at all to its inventor). He later discovered that truly beautiful, and continually changing, symmetrical patterns might be created by simply placing the angled mirrors in a small tube, at the end of which was a chamber filled with light reflecting (or diffusing) objects. The continually-curious and inventive Brewster was fascinated by the reflective effect of a candle, viewed down the length of two mirrors which had been placed at right angles to each other. David Brewster with his stereoscope, which he invented. The kaleidoscope was invented by Scottish optical pioneer, David Brewster, in 1815. ![]() the simple tubular device, which delights the human eye’s love of symmetry and pattern. Six-point crowns, involving the interlocking geometry of stars and hexagons, feature on some of my favourite hats – like Snawheid Snawheidīecause of their shared pleasures of circles, symmetry and repeating patterns, when I’m designing hat crowns, I often find myself thinking about the kaleidoscope. I’m happy that many of you enjoy the crown of Eawas because really, a six-point crown is one of the things I most love to design. ![]()
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