Interference | Wave propagation Correlated interaction Resultant displacement |
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hysical characteristics only approximated. After a long dry spell, a light rain produced this wondrous jewel-like spectral materialization in the parking lot of Shelby's convenience store. Incident light waves, reflected by the upper and lower boundaries of a thin oil film resting on water, interfere with one another to form new waves. Strictly a temporary phenomenon, energy phase shifts cause constructive and destructive radiation patterns differentiated by wavelength.
“Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.” - Henri Matisse
