optics

Over the Rainbow: Awards

Eyewire: Over the Rainbow has now come to an end, but the light still shines! On a game where we focus (no …

That really was some lightspeed tracing, wow! You finished the 200-cube marathon cell in 2 hours 55 minutes, and you also finished …

The final bell has sounded! And who is our winner? It looks like it’s Team Primary! The primary colors must officially be …

Throughout the rest of this competition, we’ve talked a lot about what light does: how it interacts with objects, how our eyes …

Eyewire has explored color models before, including our RGB vs. CMYK showdown. But where light-dependent technology is concerned, the RGB model is …

As we’ve periodically addressed during smaller VS competitions, visible light not only forms its own spectrum, but is part of a larger …

Unless you’re in a completely empty room with blank walls — or frankly unless you have no visual perception whatsoever, which accounts …

Visible light is peculiar. The human eye can distinguish between approximately one million unique colors, and yet none of these colors can …

Are you ready to fly over the rainbow? Seven years ago, one of Eyewire’s earliest challenge weeks was The Wizard of Neuropia, …

Let’s rewind a little bit and go back to the tricky nature of light. If we think of light as a …

We previously discussed light and the study …