← labSep 30, 2026

Inside white light

Every color is already in white light — a prism just slows them down by different amounts.

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Input: a webcam pointed at a desk lamp, used as the “white light” source.

Process: a GLSL TOP splits the image into a dozen wavelength bands and offsets each one with a slightly different refraction amount, so the lamp fans out into a spectrum. Moving the lamp moves the rainbow.

What we noticed: the edges of everything in the room were quietly hiding rainbows.