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P O L A R I Z A T I O N . NET

Polarized Light in Nature and Technology

POLARIZING FILM (click here)

Polarized sunglasses:

seeing fish? cars? snow?

Are Rainbows polarized?

Halos and Glories?

 The incredible Edwin Land: the quest for non-glare headlights

Secret submarine

communication?

The Viking sunstone:

legend or reality?

Beetles, Displays

and Count Dracula?

Can your eye see

polarization ? YES!

Dancing under a polarized sky

A modern Light Compass?

"Nobody is more blind than those who do not care to look"    
This site is for curious people who want to look at the generally invisible world of polarized light. Polarization is present in the rainbow, in the hidden color of minerals, in the dance of honeybees, in the flow of molten metal, in the color of beetles, and the gloss of tree leaves at dawn. Polarization is used for fishing, to measure sweetness, to tell the time, to create multicolored art, and to reproduce music. It is one of the fundamental properties of nature and one of the most useful tools for probing the boundaries of scientific knowledge. But it is also readily accessible to the amateur with inexpensive polarizing filters. Let's all acquire P-Vision!

     So, look around, explore and enjoy !!!!

Other Attractions!

Insect P-vision and navigation

Music and data

Photography and polarized filters

Polarized Magic

Louis Pasteur, chirality, and the polarization of life

Hidden colors

Polarized Art

The 3rd Dimension

Hot Metal

Visible Stress

 Polarized Space

Polarized History

Polarized landscapes

Defining sweetness

Gauging the ultra-thin

Pushing the frontiers of science

Experiments for everybody!

If you are looking for polarizing film you can find it at the Polarized Shop.  
A guest-book/complaint-book/mailbag will be added soon (hopefully).  In the mean time, send questions, comments, and corrections to

DrSouthPolepolarization.com  (a.k.a. J. Alcoz), who maintains the content of this site while telecommuting from the South Pole (well, South Texas).

This site is also sponsored by Aflash Photonics, makers of polarization measurement instrumentation: Thanks!

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