What I like about these tubes and the base is that they have so many possibilities - infinite in fact. I want to create different bases, some with calming blues, purples, some with activating reds, yellows and oranges etc. The base can also have drawings/designs on it which then reflect both outside and on the inside. Bases could be exchanged and the tubes repositioned at any time. I shall probably keep them simple, but elaborate designs are possible.These could be large for outdoors, or small for indoors. The mirrored exterior creates confusing pictures - snatches of the room or garden as well as the colour tiles.
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Wow! Such a wealth of effects in a non-mechanised way (the moving sun, of course, being the mechanism, Doh!) - great result.
What made you choose those lengths of tube? They seem great for external reflections but may be too deep for the viewer to easily appreciate the internal pattern/colour generation i.e. their head gets in the way of the sunlight - unless of course the tubes were pierced in some way. Despite that, your photos do a great job of showing the internal colour climate so maybe I'm talking rubbish.
Would larger but shorter length tubes, set one inside the other, allow the viewer to see more easily into the internal space, and also allow more sunlight to penetrate for longer in order to generate sufficient illumination to create these wonderful patterns - but without the internal space becoming to wide and barren?
Not explained that very well, but I could draw it - and ain't that ironic!
T
Glad you liked the effects - I was hoping to achieve something interesting in a low tech way - I'm not equipped to do anything fancy with beams of light or holographs for instance!
I chose the lengths of tube so that light would penetrate - there is a length at which the light will no longer fill the tube with colour and reflection - I cannot work this out mathematically but I can guess at it!
Gary, who made these first prototypes for me, has just made another two - longer this time, and I'm not sure how they will look - Gary says they are interesting in a different way because the length of tube creates different illusions - can't wait to see them.
I agree it would be a good idea to try shorter lengths too - I did have a problem photographing them - hoping that I didn't block the light as I leant over to take the shot. There are so many options for making different lengths, colours, bases etc.
There must be another year's work here trying out the permutations.
Piercing the tubes... that's another interesting idea...
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