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Rotating Disc Spiral
The observer gently spins the disc and then takes a step back. Looking at the disc the eye actively and automatically creates complementary and polar counter images. The sense of sight thus fulfils a basic principle of nature: maintaining the unity in a variety of perceptions and thus through this unity maintaining the diversity.
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Double Helix
The most basic experience that we can find in water is its inner movement. The characteristic flow forms can be traced back to only a few basic patterns. Whilst working at the Institute for Flow Science of Theodor Schwenk, John Wilkes was engaged in the study of flow forms and so-called wall surfaces for flowing liquids.
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Kaleidoscope
Originally in Greek, kaleidoscope meant beautiful picture viewer. It is fascinating seeing the images created by the Kaleidoscope. Symmetry as a word and a concept – the basic pattern of perception – becomes visible by the images created by the axis of reflection.
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Walk in Kaleidoscope
An all-round view of the individual, mirrored multiple times, is an experience that is very well suited for the centre of a labyrinth or the end of an experience path. Initially we produced mirrors exclusively from polished sheets of stainless steel.
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Walk in Kaleidoscope, mirrors inside and outside
An all-round view of the individual, mirrored multiple times, is an experience that is very well suited for the centre of a labyrinth or the end of an experience path. Initially we produced mirrors exclusively from polished sheets of stainless steel.
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Water Prism
If you look through the prism in daylight the most wonderful colours can be seen: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Smaller dark objects in the surrounding area appear to be totally colourful, lines look as if they are curved and, in the boundary between sunlit and shadowed areas, coloured fringes appear.
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Prism Column
The vertical prism refracts incident light visibly around the corner. You can see this by the fact that when you look trough it you don‘t see what is in front of you but rather people or objects which are in another place. At the same time the white light is also split into the colours of the rainbow and these do not all travel around the corner at the same angle, creating the effect that the people and objects have a coloured ring around them.
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Light Stone
The double refractive feldspar has a special status among stones. Light is refracted into the spectral colours by means of polarisation at the inner layers and not like in a prism by reflection at the edges. This apparition of colours is caused when light falls on to the transparent stone and, upon closer observation, is refracted into the magnificent colours of the rainbow in the inner layers of the stone.
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Mirror Rotunda
To see oneself in a mirror, to discover changes, to experience a mirror world. To exert oneself while turning the rotunda and to be rewarded with the sound of the bell. The Mirror Rotunda represents a concentrated address of the senses and is interesting for grown-ups as well as for children. In pedestrian zones, it is a welcome change to the commercial activities.
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Open Kaleidoscope
This equipment opens up the secrets of the classic kaleidoscope: three mirrored surfaces are arranged so that reflections are created, which young and old recognise and once again become fascinated by. Looking through the kaleidoscope, the images of the still or moving surroundings – furniture, houses, trees, birds etc. – are visibly multiplied.
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