Federal University of Santa Catarina

Polagons: Designing and Fabricating Polarized Light Mosaics with User-Defined Color-Changing Behaviors

Polarized light mosaics (PLMs) are color-changing structures that alter their appearance based on the orientation of incident polarized light. While a few artists have developed techniques for crafting PLMs by hand, the underlying material properties are difficult to reason about; there exist no tools to bridge the hi…