RainbowSpec

All about rainbows, color, and light!

This site intends to cover topics on rainbows, light, and color. As such it reaches into physics and chemistry, however it aims to be both beginner friendly and indepth.

Recommended first page: The Visible Spectrum

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Basic Pages

Core Concepts

Rainbows

Other Atmospheric

Future pages:

  • the 3 cones and color vision (core)
  • sun halos (atmosp)
  • glories (atmosp)
  • thin film interference
  • diffraction gratings
  • photoelasticity
  • how dif colors make the same (core)
  • polarization (core)

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Suggested first page: The Visible Spectrum