Thursday, 9 August 2007

Colour tubes

I am still working on the colour tubes, or more accurately tubes with a reflective interior that take their colour from a translucent base...

From talking to friends I have decided to make (or have made, rather) mirrored steel tubes. The steel will be bent and welded together - with the right equipment this can be done invisibly.


My friend Gary has made me a couple of models to work with - here are some photos - they are equilateral triangular tubes in mirrored steel - one is 250 mm tall, the other is 150 mm. In some photos I have added a small prism, and in some I have placed coloured perspex beneath them so that they fill with colour. A bonus is that the outside faces of the tubes reflect the colours in a hexagon shape so that it ressembles a kaleidoscope - here I am again back with kaleidoscopes!


The 2 tubes with a prism on our garden table...


And now placed on top of a mirrored surface with a red and a blue perspex square beneath...

And now with extra coloured squares, aerial view...

And now from the front, kaleidoscopic view...


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