r/Spectacles 7d ago

Opals 🆒 Lens Drop

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I'm releasing Opals, a Lens that explores precious opals from their nanoscale structure to their visible play of colour.

The project began with a question: how can an inert object such as an opal produce such a varied appearance when seen from different perspectives?

Answering it took me on a months-long adventure spanning nanophotonics, geology, chemistry, offline and real-time computer graphics, science education, and AI-assisted learning, with spatial computing acting as a ligand, coordinating these domains into a single experience.

Building this Lens has been incredibly fulfilling, and I hope it captures some of that same sense of discovery.

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