Prismatic
summary
Claims that the textbook prism story is incomplete and shows why by building live simulations of rainbow from raindrop caustics, uses Java/Processing creative code to compute light paths and reveal the faint but real second rainbow, links creative experiments to medical physics practice, reuses a decade of generative work and 3D organ models as playful demos, and demonstrates visuals that render and animate correctly onstage — a practical mashup of math, coded visuals, and provable optical results.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:31Personal passion for creativity
- 4:43Bruce Lee ping-pong debate
- 9:41Medical physics and creativity
- 12:14Rationality vs creativity
- 14:21Unweaving the rainbow metaphor
- 17:55Newton’s prism and optics
- 21:23Rainbow explanation incomplete
- 24:36How raindrops create rainbows
- 27:51Hidden second rainbow
- 29:58Science shaping worldviews
- 33:57Illusion of order
- 35:23Creative coding exploration
- 37:29Conclusion
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