“Is that light curling around that cylinder? Yes. Imagine this: A light ray enters the edge of the plastic. It travels through the plastic until it comes to the junction between the air and cylinder. Because of the small angle the light makes with the cup, instead of going through the junction and refracting, it reflects back in to the plastic. After reflecting, the ray hits another junction and reflects again. This process contains the light within the plastic as it continues on its initial downward direction, creating the helix you see. This is the same principle that fiber optics use to transmit light through non-linear paths.”
(Source: jstn)
“The portrait of identity online is often painted in black and white. Who you are online is who you are offline. That rosy view of identity is complemented with a similarly oversimplified view of anonymity. People think of anonymity as dark and chaotic. But human identity doesn’t work like that online or offline. We present ourselves differently in different contexts, and that’s key to our creativity and self-expression. It’s not who you share with, it’s who you share as. Identity is prismatic.” — Chris Poole (via zachklein)
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