Notes concerning “Optics”

• Holographic archival 2014-04-24 (10 minutes)
• A mechano-optical vector display for animation archival 2014-12-28 (updated 2015-09-03) (28 minutes)
• Optical lever thermometer 2015-09-03 (1 minute)
• Can you read the lunar lander’s plaque from Earth? Or write a new one? 2015-09-03 (9 minutes)
• US$10M for a new, much better McMurdo Base, or less 2016-05-18 (updated 2016-05-19) (7 minutes)
• Phosphorescent laser display 2016-08-16 (8 minutes)
• Starfield servo 2016-08-30 (updated 2018-11-07) (13 minutes)
• Rosetta opacity hologram 2016-09-05 (8 minutes)
• Subterranean glazing 2016-09-06 (25 minutes)
• Soldering with a compound parabolic concentrator or even just an imaging lens 2016-09-07 (2 minutes)
• Microprint visor 2016-09-07 (2 minutes)
• Compressed sensing microscope 2016-10-06 (7 minutes)
• 3-D printing glass with continuously varying refractive indices for optics without internal surfaces 2016-10-06 (3 minutes)
• Jello printing 2016-12-14 (8 minutes)
• Bubble display 2017-01-24 (updated 2017-08-03) (1 minute)
• Sparkle wheel display 2017-05-10 (6 minutes)
• Flying spot reilluminatable stage 2017-05-15 (1 minute)
• CCD oscilloscope 2017-06-20 (updated 2017-07-04) (7 minutes)
• Microlens vibrating lightfield 2018-07-14 (updated 2018-07-15) (11 minutes)
• Caustics 2018-08-18 (updated 2019-11-08) (8 minutes)
• You can’t construct optical systems with arbitrary light transfers, but you can do some awesome shit 2018-09-10 (11 minutes)
• Electrolytic anodizing, with a small movable electrode 2018-10-28 (2 minutes)
• Macroscopic capacitive DLP 2019-04-08 (1 minute)
• Caustic business card 2019-04-08 (3 minutes)
• Seeing the Apollo flags from Earth would require a telescope 27× the size of the Gran Telescopio Canarias 2019-04-10 (updated 2019-04-16) (2 minutes)
• Analemma sundial 2019-07-05 (11 minutes)
• Some extensions of William Beaty’s scratch holograms 2019-07-11 (9 minutes)
• Debokehfication 2019-09-01 (updated 2019-09-12) (4 minutes)
• Photodiode camera 2019-09-04 (16 minutes)
• Bokeh pointcasting 2019-09-08 (updated 2019-09-09) (16 minutes)
• Lenticular deflector 2019-09-08 (updated 2019-09-09) (9 minutes)
• Bistable magnetic electromechanical display 2019-10-24 (16 minutes)
• Camera flash extrapolation 2019-11-12 (6 minutes)
• Kerr snow display 2019-11-12 (3 minutes)