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Focused Conversation
This giant balloon bends sound waves just as a lens bends light.
Where: This exhibit is not currently on view.
Giant Lens
See wonderfully warped views of the world through this colossal convex lens.
Image Relay
Lenses transmit an image of your face across space.
Rickshaw Obscura
Step into this mobile camera obscura and never see the light the same way again. A small lens in the ceiling captures the scene around the visitor and projects a ghostly dreamlike movie on the table below.
Where: This exhibit is not currently on view.
Water-Drop Photography
Here you can select and photograph a precise moment—to within a millisecond—as a water droplet falls into a small pool of water. Freezing the action reveals both the complexity and the beauty of fluid motion.
Where: Crossroads: Getting Started
