"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
I’ve been interested in optics for many years, ever since I started building my own telescopes at age 11 and began writing ray-tracing software in my early twenties. But one thing that I haven’t experimented with too much is polarization, probably because my self-educated view of light is mostly in the form of little billiard […]
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