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  • At Light Island, play with transmitted and reflected light.

Light Island

Play with beams of light.

Where:   Bechtel Gallery 3: Seeing & Reflections
Exhibit Developers:   Sally Duensing and Lynn Rankin, 1980
Phenomena: Color, Color Mixing, Color Separation, Image Formation, Reflection, Refraction
Keywords: lenses, mirrors, prisms
Collections: Active Prolonged Engagement, Seeing, Seeing the Light

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