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Light Color and Seeing

Scouting Oregon for the 2017 Solar Eclipse

by Eileen Campbell • September 7, 2016

Road trip! Scouting Oregon locations for filming the 2017 solar eclipse.

Buckyball by Leo Villareal, 2016

Experience Buckyball by artist Leo Villareal, on view in the Plaza.

Truly Primary Pigments

Watch colors play in this quick exploration of layering hues.

Science activity that demonstrates a creative exploration of light through a pinhole viewer
Poking Fun at Art

Explore light and color from a hole new angle.

Science activity that demonstrates light and color mixing through a pinhole viewer
Poking Fun at Color Mixing

Enlarge your perspective on color.

Science activity that demonstrates light and mathematical relationships through a pinhole viewer
Poking Fun at Math

Make pinhole predictions.

Science activity that demonstrates how light travels through a pinhole viewer
Poking Fun at Light Rays

Discover a straight path to enlightenment.

A science activity that demonstrates the two-slit interference phenomenon
Two-Slit Wave Model

Use index cards to show how light plus light equals dark.

Color Uncovered App
Color Uncovered App

Explore the surprising side of color.

Science activity that demonstrates color mixing with printer ink
Truly Primary Pigments

Make your own mix-n-match markers to produce a rainbow of colors.

Countdown 1 (on the way to Woleai)

by Eclipse Field Crew • February 29, 2016

Dispatches from our crew in Micronesia.

Science activity that demonstrates human visual perception of images on a smartphone
Pixels, Pictures, Phones

Take a (super) close look at your smartphone. You may be surprised by what you see.

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