SME Light Winter 2000 Laboratory 3 Week of Feb 8th, 2000 Activity 1: Symmetry and You Take a picture of your face and transfer it to your web page using the digital cameral and image processing equipment in the lab. Re-make the picture using first the right half of your face and its mirror image. Then re-make the picture using the left half and its mirror image. Save the picture in JPEG format--you will be transferring this to the web in Activity 3. The instructions for this part are by the computer with the digital camera. Questions:
Bonus Activity: Ambigrams Play with the "ambigrams" at http://Ambigram.Matic.com/ambigram.htm. Ambigram your favorite word and put the image on your web page.
Bonus Question: How many letter pairs did the designers need to make into ambigrams in order to make this site work?
Activity 2: Polarimetry For this activity, you will view the rotation of plane polarized light by Karo Syrup through a polarimeter. Karo Syrup is simply corn syrup and happens to rotate light fairly well. Go to the polarimeter station and follow the design instructions you will find there. Questions:
Activity 3: Setting up for the project.
First, read through the project description handout with your group, and decide what project you are going to do. Agree on a tentative title for your project and write a one-paragraph description of it.
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