Saturday, May 9, 2009

mean da screen =P


Hello again =] I am going to talk about physics in my life that I realize and I'm not even looking for. So just now I was looking through the pictures on my mom's camera to find the picture that I actually took for my journal. But as I was looking, I noticed this picture. I was going to use the other one but my mom lost the cord and this one was printed out so I just took a picture of the picture haha. Anyways this picture is of a ceiling in Las Vegas. I went up the week before spring break to play in a soccer tournament. But after the tournament we went to go walk the strip and there was this ceiling that lit up. It was like a show on a huge screen. It was so colorful and crazy and I was amazed at how they did this. I remember in physics class seeing a video clip of how the big screen tv in the Japan horse racing track was made and how it works. I'm going to guess this one in Las Vegas is very similar to that. I was amazed at all the many colors that there was on the screen. But all these colors are made of three primary colors of light. Red, Green, and Blue. In order to make all of the colors, the bulbs on the screen vary in brightness. For example if the red and green were bright and the blue was off, it would make the yellow color. From up close I would probably be able to see all the individual bulbs in a pattern of red, green and blue. But from far away it makes amazing pictures like the one above. Once again it is simple physics that makes such awesome things like a big screen on the ceiling.