#vortoscope

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F1000013 (vortoscope) by Declan Brumfield via Flickr: Nikon FE Adox Color Implosion 100 35-70 f2.8

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Making a Vortoscope/Kaleidoscope

Materials:

3 mirrors (acrylic sheets or separate)

Hot glue or strong tape

A clamp

An acrylic cutter

Ruler

Steps:

Work out how big you need the mirrors to fit the lens, do this by s = d√3 s = width of strip d = diameter of lens barrel Round up by at least 5mm to allow for any cutting/assembly inaccuracy  I may have to do this twice so I can first test the vortoscope with my DSLR 18-55mm lens and then later on when we get inducted to the film cameras to adapt the vortoscope to their lenses

Use an acrylic cutter to cut the acrylic mirrors to size, all 3 mirrors being the same dimensions

Tape/hot glue the 3 mirrors together with the reflective surface facing inwards

Make sure no light leaks through the connections to each mirror

Attach vortoscope to lens with a clamp/hold it in place

EDIT:

After attempting to buy mirrors online, when they arrived they weren’t what I thought they were and were actually mirror-like bits of card which were reflective but blurry and wouldn’t be very stable when assembled. After this I went into Hobbycraft which had A4 bits of mirrors which I could cut down but they were £15 each and I needed 2 of them so it would cost me £30, because I was only going to use them for this project (unless I decided I wanted to do it again) I didn’t think this was worth it. Because of this I have chosen the idea of looking at objects/places at different perspectives so that it creates mystery to what the object is or where it is. All three artists I have researched have shown this similar theme which is why I want to explore it in my own way.

Salt, G., (2015). Experiments With a Vortoscope. [online]. West Norfolk: Available at: http://www.fujix-forum.com/threads/experiments-with-a-vortoscope.38611/ [Accessed on: 5th November 2016, at 13.05].

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Practising some vortographs.