Day 3: Lights and Motion Today we experimented with using several lights instead of just one. We used clusters of Christmas tree lights with 9V batteries, and multiple maglights. We also tried making the light or the objects move, back and forth, around in circles, or up and down. We decided the images look more interesting when they move. Using Crickets, motors, legos, and cardboard, we looked at examples of modules that could be used to make lights or objects move in different ways.

This fall, Karen Thimmesch and I are working with a group of 6th graders at Museum Magnet School (St. Paul, MN) to make kinetic light art, using materials that make interesting shadows and reflections, lights, screens, and crickets and motors to make these lights and objects move. Days 1 and 2: Experimentation We spent about an hour each day playing with lights (mini Maglights, with the top taken off), screens (pieces of vellum, hung under the tables), and materials (netting, sparkly fabric, feathers, mylar...) to explore the images we could get.

Okay next - adding the light... So these are quite beautiful... Its also very interesting that some researchers are focused in recreating caustics in the field of computer graphics. Henrik Wann Jensen is an associate professor at the University of California at San Diego, where he is working in the computer graphics lab..