Progress

This is when I was playing with the fiber optics in class on Monday. I manipulated the optics so that they would clearly show light all the way through the fiber. This image is when I both shaved and notched the fiber optic. Pretty good results!

This image shows how much light is still traveling completely through the fiber optic, even after being manipulated. Even in a light environment, its still a lot!

This is showing the fiber optic just notched, which in my circumstances, works the best. It gives a really great lineation to the light, and gives me exactly what I want to be able to create some sort of structure with the light still being able to travel completely through the fiber optic while being somewhat bent.

Sorry its so shaky! But this is all of my devices on the pond on Tuesday night, before it was raining! I attached all of them to a line, and the lines got caught so they wouldn't move as far as i wanted them to. I think I will change the string to a fishing line so that they get less tangled and move easier in the water. They are floating in these plastic food containers that seperate the devices from the water, and are clear so that they do not disturb the reflections that I want too greatly.

This shows one individual device by itself. My camera couldn't capture the reflections too well, I have to fiddle with the exposure and such and couldn't quite capture them.

The things I have to fix is the fiber optics staying attached to the light (I was having trouble with that while in this process), and the line that I use to deploy them upon the pond. Otherwise everything looked pretty good, and was successful in terms of the light's interaction with the water's surface.