light bending
Prism's optical trick
Light bending is the curving of light's path as it passes through or around something.
In physics, this includes refraction (light bending through different media like water or glass) and gravitational lensing (light curving around massive objects).
In fiction and fantasy, light bending often refers to the ability to manipulate light to create illusions or invisibility: She used light bending to cloak herself from view.
- refractionWave bending between media
- metamaterialsEngineered composites with unusual properties
- heat hazeOptical distortion from warmth
- optical path lengthEffective light travel distance
- curved mirrorReflector with curvature
straw in water · cloaking devices · invisible cloak · Huygens' principle · gravitational lensing · mirage · dispersion · general relativity · spacetime curvature · focal point · aberration · wavelength · ray tracing · astronomy · glass · water · crystal · rainbow
- light phenomenarainbow, refraction, diffraction, spectrum, prism
- opticslens, lenses, mirror, mirrors, prism
- light behaviorreflection, refraction, diffraction, scattering, absorption
- physics experimentsexperimenting, testing, measuring, dropping, rolling
- lightsunlight, daylight, shine, rays, moonlight
- gravitygravity, graviton, gravity well, gravitational pull, gravity wave
light bendinglight reflection
Redirected luminance from surfaces
reflection · light absorption · absorption · specular reflection · diffuse reflection