25mm Optical Glass X-Cube Prism RGB Dispersion Prism Physics and Decoration Light Spectrum Educational Model Photography Props

Viel besser, als der Würfel

I gave this to my son for his 4th birthday. He's had it for over 2 months now and still likes to carry it around and show it to people. It is both educational and beautiful. The crystal is very clear and when you shine a flashlight (or sunlight) through it on one of the correct sides, it beams colored spectrum light onto the surrounding walls/room. The crystal has 2 crisscrossing planes inside of it that form a 3-dimensional X within the cube. These provide the refracting capabilities and also why you have to shine the light in the correct direction through the crystal for it to show the spectrum. Overall, a neat gift to give to a child which can also be used to educate them on the light spectrum.

This thing is way more beautiful than it shows in the pics! Do not expect a traditional pure prism, this is not that. Each facet has filters that filter out and reflect a specific wavelength/color of light. Sometimes you can witness TIR or Total Internal Reflection too if you have the angle right, which is super cool to me as an optics nerd (Schmidt-Pechan vs Abbe Koenig prisms in binoculars, telescopes, etc) Its just a really pretty trinket, but not a traditional "rainbow" prism so dont expect that. I would buy again, I got the 25mm cube, thinking about getting the polyhedron now. It is so beautiful in sunlight and fun to play with different colors of lasers. But be careful in sunlight or with lasers! Wear eye protection! Some reflections can catch you off guard and are not necessarily what you would expect! Be careful. But its beautiful and packaged nicely. Only room for improvement would be if it came in a small velvet/microfiber sack or with a cloth to keep fingerprints off. Or a 3 pronged stand on which to hold it up, off centered. So cool to watch it in the light and turn it and see from different angles.

If you turn it in front of a light it does cast colored light effects (Somewhat disco ball esque) but it does not cast rainbows. Very nice-looking shelf bling. Nicely packaged in a gift/storage box.

Buy this beautiful things, Let the light spread in the world 🤩🤩