[chbot] Fibre optic scraps? / synthetic ulexite?
Mark Atherton
markaren1 at xtra.co.nz
Sat Dec 3 06:20:46 GMT 2022
Sounds possible to me. The trick may be to keep the bundle coherent
during gluing.
On 12/3/2022 6:29 PM, andrew dean wrote:
> I’ve been obsessed with ulexite for years and was curious if I could make a high quality synthetic by using epoxy resin to glue a bunch of fibre optic pieces together that I could cut/turn/mill into a solid that would (ideally) have the weird quality of making an image appear on the top of it.
>
> 1. You reckon it would work?
> 2. Would gluing fibre optic strands together ruin their optical isolation?
> 3. Know anybody with some scrap optical wire or a super cheap source for fibre optic scraps/b-grade stuff I could play with?
>
>
> Cheers!
> -Andrew
> (No, the other one)
> ...
> (Not that one either)
> ...
> (Ok, fine... <sigh> the fat American one… yeah, that one.)
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