WASHINGTON, D.C., September 17, 2019 -- In a kaleidoscope, mirrors are placed at angles to create a visual illusion of multiple, symmetric images from one original object. The number of symmetric ...

and the two angled mirrors on the side reflect the lights, the billboards, and the general hustle and bustle of Times Square, creating a kaleidoscope of sorts when you walk through the installation.

because there aren’t many parts to a kaleidoscope. In essence, there are really only three.” Those components are the mirrors, the case and a moving object. Each kaleidoscope incorporates a ...

Transverse components of the normalized Poynting vectors in the focal plane of the tightly focused kaleidoscope-structured vector optical fields. The direction of the transverse energy flow is ...

The Stufish design is the biggest kaleidoscope ever built for people to actually walk through. Stufish says designing a 40-m-long mirror without any seams or warping wasn't the only challenge ...

We usually think of a kaleidoscope as a long tube with three mirrors and some beads or glass shards in one end. But we looked it up and there’s a second definition that means a constantly ...

After unfolding all 18 of its golden mirrors last month, the James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first look at starlight. "This amazing telescope has not only spread its wings ...