Mysterious Glowing Ball

Written By Paul Andersen

Description:  The mysterious glowing ball contains a red, green, and blue LED giving the ball a purple appearance. When the ball is stationary your brain perceives them all as one color. When the ball is spinning your brain can perceive individual LEDs turning on and off. The persistence of vision allows technology like movies possible and is a wonderful phenomenon to use in a unit on vision and light.

Web Resource:  Persistence of vision - Wikipedia

 
Paul Andersen www.bozemanscience.com
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