It is important to point out that we are not so much interested in dispersive prisms that split a beam of white light into its spectrum of colors, although they make great album covers.

White light is made of a spectrum of different colours. Light can be split up into these separate colours using a prism. There are three primary colours of light, which can be combined to make ...

With its high jewellery collection, Les Formes de La Couleur, Hermès embarks on an exploration of the shapes of colour.

The incandescent light bulb was one of the first early applications ... optics and the work of skilled glassmakers who constructed prism tiles, deck prisms, and vault lights.