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We did put out tape and polarizing filters, its a beautiful effect.

  There's a thin line between making the exhibition about shadows and  
making it about light.  As we have the classic explo exhibition Seeing  
the Light at the Hall already, we really want to focus on shadows...

Eric Siegel
esiegel at nyscience dot org



On Jan 27, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Mike Levad wrote:

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> Polarizing filters with bifringent plastic films could be fun with an
> overhead.  I know scotch tape and clear mylar are both bifringent.   
> The
> mylar would give you cool colors with out being sticky.  Or maybe  
> you might
> want to have visitors add small pieces of tape to a surface and  
> watch it
> change.
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> On 1/27/09 8:56 AM, "Jeff Courtman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Ian - I'll take that as a compliment!
>>
>> A quick Google for digital noise reduction turned up this:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/at6od6
>>
>> about 2K, another 1.8K for amp.  I did find a plug in module made by
>> TOA - less than a hundred dollars, but didn't delve into it to figure
>> out if its convertible.....
>>
>> I wasn't discounting the use of musik, only the ambient sound issue.
>> Having said that, just stay away from stuff that is so short that the
>> sheer repetitiveness will drive staff and volunteers - and some
>> visitors, like me, nuts!
>>
>> Would be an interesting thing to test, too, wouldn't it?  What
>> percentage of visitors a) noticed the music and b)found that it
>> impacted their experience.....
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