> > From: Jostein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/11/22 Tue AM 11:30:52 GMT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Polarized light > > Hi Don, > > Your crystal pics are lovely. > > It's interesting to see that many of your crystals produce the same palette of > colours in polarised light as do natural ice. > > Of course, ice can be regarded as a crystal lattice of water, but in ice I've > only seen this effect in cracks; where the lattice is broken by force. I've > never seen it on the surface, like it seems to be in your crystals.
Possibly the ice effect is more like Newton's Rings. > > Jostein > > > Quoting Don Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > If anyone is interested in polarized > > light there's a new (Red) button on my > > website front page labeled 'Prints'. > > > > This leads to a gallery of crystal > > images taken with the *ist D. > > > > Don W > > > > -- > > Dr E D F Williams > > _______________________________ > > http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams > > See feature: The Cement Company from Hell > > Updated: Print Gallery -- 16 11 2005 > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
