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Digital Images: Exploratorium Exhibit Images

The Exploratorium houses nearly 500 interactive exhibits. Here you'll find a few images of the our exhibits. We hope to expand this section greatly in the future.

Floating Symmetry
Floating_Symmetry is simply a large flat mirror where one can learn about symmetry in surprisingly humourous ways.
Duck Into Kaleidoscope
Duck Into Kaleidoscope, one of the Exploratorium's popular exhibits puts you in the middle of the action. A narcissisist's dream come true.
Image Relay A series of lenses transmit your face 20 feet from your head at Image Relay.
Chaldni Plates Sand on bowed metal plates (properly called" Chaldni Plates") jiggles to nodal positions as the plate vibrates.
Catenary Arch You can build a free-standing catenary arch out of blocks at this exhibit.
Colored Shadows Red, green, and blue lamps cast complimentary cyan, magenta, and yellow shadows at Colored Shadows.
Enchanged Tree Sound activates hundreds of small lamps on the Enchanted Tree.
Distorted Room The Ames Room. This room actually has no square corners. They only look that way when viewed from this point. This creates bizzare perspective size distortions.
Momentum Machine The Momentum Machine gives you a visceral understanding of the meaning of conservation of angular momentum.
Bernoulli Ball At the Bernoulli Ball the forces of air pressure keep the ball afloat and centered in the stream of air.
Chaotic Pendulum Even though the structure of the Chaotic Pendulum seems simple, its motion becomes chaotic and unpredictable when turned at the right speeds.

 

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