The Exploratorium
The Exploratorium is the museum of science, art and human perception at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco.
The Palace of Fine Arts:
The restrooms had an interesting tiled wall. The lines are all parallel, they just look slanted.
There was an exhibit with trays of soapy water and wire hoops in varied shapes for making colossal bubbles:
The picture below is not a spiral galaxy. Not a comet's tail, although it's similar. It's the vapor emitted by chips of dry ice that have been spun off:
The left photo is a vortex formed by spinning water, and the right pic illustrates how a puff a air can form a ring as it rises in water:
A Cool Optical Illusion at the entrance to the museum:
Blog Tag: Images Blog Tag: San Francisco
Posted 12/17/2004 08:53:00 PM
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On 12/18/2004 6:15 AM, 
Lisa said...
On 12/20/2004 9:55 PM, magz said...
2 Comments:
Wow! Cool! I like the optical illusion at the bottom.
Hi Dave! happy season to the goodman house! LOLOL... I grew up not far from the LA Museum of Science and Industry and LOVE this kinda stuff! My dad was an areospace engineer and was making lots of stuff like the giant bubbles for us constantly... wheeeee!
Oh.. and if you get a chance check out my son's blog linked on mine as where has my mind gone... he's not bad...lol. (beaming... he's HOME!)
I SAW that lap pillow! what I really want for X-mas is the one i saw a couple weeks ago that was a headless man torso pillow with one arm to either lay on, or under... lol.
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