AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning

Tag: iridescent

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Thin transparent films produce rainbows - an effect due to the wave nature of light (the same effect that gives soap bubbles their rainbow colors).  Here, the thin film might be photoresist or dried residue from some sort of solvent, like acetone.  I’ll probably never know, since this wasn’
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Closeup of artificial opal, formed on fragments of microscope slides by drying little plastic beads.  Everywhere that the beads happened to assemble themselves into regular arrays as they dried, you get iridescent rainbow colors - the “fire” of opal. The rainbow iridescence comes from the interference of light waves as
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A dream landscape, formed naturally by defects in a thin polymer film.  This phenomenon is called Newton’s Rings, and is the same sort of thin-film effect that makes soap bubbles iridescent.
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