Linking My Work To The Kaleidoscope

A kaleidoscope is an optical instrument, usually a cylinder with mirrors containing loose, colored objects such as beads or pebbles and bits of glass. As you looks into one end, light entering the other end creates a colorful pattern, due to repeated reflection in the mirrors. A kaleidoscope operates on the principle of multiple reflection, where several mirrors are placed at an angle to one another. Typically there are three rectangular mirrors set at 60° to each other so that they form an equilateral triangle. As a child, I owned several different kaleidoscopes, of different shapes and sizes and I always found them fascinating. Therefore, I decided that I wanted to experiment with my spirographs on Photoshop to create some of my very own kaleidoscope images.

Here are some images of photographs that have been turned into kaleidoscope pieces, which I found inspiration from: