Tubes of Light

Way back, I built some laser spirographs. I do still love them. Portable and usually a crowd pleaser. I have a 5 motor/mirror setup that is not inside any enclosure, so I can point whatever beams I want at it :) It is using cheap mirrors, (not first-surface) that I've contemplated popping out the dental mirrors to see what kind of difference it'd make...but haven't done so yet. I am using this rig with the glass wedge, and with a 3 mirror "pyramid" setup to bounce a "cone" around.

What I found super neat was catching the frequency of the camera capture with the the speed of the mirrors to get some sweet gif action!

Beams used (wavelengths):
With wedge:
445nm

With 3 mirror "pyramid":
532nm
490nm
650nm

videotogif_2018.07.16_23.46.56 by Lewie Wilkinson, on Flickr

IMAG4555 by Lewie Wilkinson, on Flickr

IMAG4571 by Lewie Wilkinson, on Flickr

IMAG4585 by Lewie Wilkinson, on Flickr[url=https://flic.kr/p/2994D8N]

IMAG4591 by Lewie Wilkinson, on Flickr

IMAG4596 by Lewie Wilkinson, on Flickr

videotogif_2018.07.16_23.55.44 by Lewie Wilkinson, on Flickr

IMAG4617 by Lewie Wilkinson, on Flickr

IMAG4625 by Lewie Wilkinson, on Flickr

videotogif_2018.07.16_23.50.16 by Lewie Wilkinson, on Flickr

videotogif_2018.07.16_23.53.22 by Lewie Wilkinson, on Flickr

videotogif_2018.07.16_23.49.05 by Lewie Wilkinson, on Flickr


I should clean up
IMAG4638 by Lewie Wilkinson, on Flickr