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soap
film

a film drains, and its colors march downward — interference written in a thinning veil of water

source Daylight

flat white, D65-like baseline

film soap film

air · 1.33 · air — one reversal

shape hanging sheet

a vertical film drains top-down

light path reflection

reflection — the film’s own color

polarizer none

none — unpolarized average

view θ 0°
drag to orbit · scroll to zoom
drainage 0%
947 nm
the film is a two-beam interferometer.

each height reflects a different color; as the water drains, the thickness thins and the fringes march down. below ≈50 nm the film washes to the black film — the water is gone. change the shape to hang it, blow it, level it, or stretch it between two rings. drag to orbit: the path through the film shortens with the viewing angle, so the fringes move. click to pop it — the rim is thicker, and thicker is a different color.