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After learning about light interference creating the iridescence of butterflies and of CDs, I wondered whether you could burn a CD to control the structure of t
by tgb 9y ago
After learning about light interference creating the iridescence of butterflies and of CDs, I wondered whether you could burn a CD to control the structure of the CD to change that interference enough to, say, draw an iridescent image. However, it looks like the writeable elements of a CD are a too large. With a Bluray though, it might be possible... I haven't tried and I'm not entirely sure how you'd go about doing it.
- buckminster 9y agoLightScribe kind of does this though it's not iridescent. You can also find some free code to achieve a similar effect on the data side of a disk. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightScribe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightScribe
- striking 9y agoFor anyone who was curious: I found this instructable that includes MATLAB code to generate the data for the image to be burned to the data side of a CD. http://www.instructables.com/id/Burning-visible-images-onto-CD-Rs-with-data-beta/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Burning-visible-images-onto-... This was all I could really find, unfortunately...