Consider also the dream of the cinema in a raindrop. Nature abounds in catoptric effects. In fact, every droplet of rain constitutes an elemental catoptric machine, due to the refractive properties of water. At the very origins of modern Western rationalism, René Descartes explained these principles in Les Météores (1637). During a sun-shower, for example, because of the slightly different refractive angle of each raindrop, the observer will witness a particular phenomenon of the transformation of sunlight: a rainbow. As Jurgis Baltrusaitus explained in Le miroir: "The rain of micro-mirrors reflects a deformed sun." The most spectacular such effect is described in Book X of Les Météores: this is the apparition of several suns.
Allen S. Weiss, Shattered Forms: Art Brut, Phantasms, Modernism,
Consider also the dream of the cinema in a raindrop. Nature abounds in catoptric effects. In fact, every droplet of rain constitutes an elemental catoptric machine, due to the refractive properties of water. At the very origins of modern Western rationalism, René Descartes explained these principles in Les Météores (1637). During a sun-shower, for example, because of the slightly different refractive angle of each raindrop, the observer will witness a particular phenomenon of the transformation of sunlight: a rainbow. As Jurgis Baltrusaitus explained in Le miroir: "The rain of micro-mirrors reflects a deformed sun." The most spectacular such effect is described in Book X of Les Météores: this is the apparition of several suns.
Allen S. Weiss, Shattered Forms: Art Brut, Phantasms, Modernism,
Consider also the dream of the cinema in a raindrop. Nature abounds in catoptric effects. In fact, every droplet of rain constitutes an elemental catoptric machine, due to the refractive properties of water. At the very origins of modern Western rationalism, René Descartes explained these principles in Les Météores (1637). During a sun-shower, for example, because of the slightly different refractive angle of each raindrop, the observer will witness a particular phenomenon of the transformation of sunlight: a rainbow. As Jurgis Baltrusaitus explained in Le miroir: "The rain of micro-mirrors reflects a deformed sun." The most spectacular such effect is described in Book X of Les Météores: this is the apparition of several suns.
Allen S. Weiss, Shattered Forms: Art Brut, Phantasms, Modernism,
Consider also the dream of the cinema in a raindrop. Nature abounds in catoptric effects. In fact, every droplet of rain constitutes an elemental catoptric machine, due to the refractive properties of water. At the very origins of modern Western rationalism, René Descartes explained these principles in Les Météores (1637). During a sun-shower, for example, because of the slightly different refractive angle of each raindrop, the observer will witness a particular phenomenon of the transformation of sunlight: a rainbow. As Jurgis Baltrusaitus explained in Le miroir: "The rain of micro-mirrors reflects a deformed sun." The most spectacular such effect is described in Book X of Les Météores: this is the apparition of several suns.
Allen S. Weiss, Shattered Forms: Art Brut, Phantasms, Modernism,
Consider also the dream of the cinema in a raindrop. Nature abounds in catoptric effects. In fact, every droplet of rain constitutes an elemental catoptric machine, due to the refractive properties of water. At the very origins of modern Western rationalism, René Descartes explained these principles in Les Météores (1637). During a sun-shower, for example, because of the slightly different refractive angle of each raindrop, the observer will witness a particular phenomenon of the transformation of sunlight: a rainbow. As Jurgis Baltrusaitus explained in Le miroir: "The rain of micro-mirrors reflects a deformed sun." The most spectacular such effect is described in Book X of Les Météores: this is the apparition of several suns.
Allen S. Weiss, Shattered Forms: Art Brut, Phantasms, Modernism,
Allen S. Weiss, Shattered Forms: Art Brut, Phantasms, Modernism,