Polariscope

This is a quick 'n dirty way of building a cheap polariscope.
I got the idea when I pondered what to do with a bunch of cheap 3D cinema glasses I have.

Some background information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarizer

One might think that these glasses are not suitable for this kind of use as they are circular polarized, but there's a trick for this. The quarter wave plate has to be on the correct side, otherwise you will only get linear polarization.
You should definitely play around with some of these before you mount them, there's a bunch of strange effects to discover.

Step 1: Stuff you need

Basically, you need some sort of holder for the filters, for this I used some corrugated fiberboard.
A transparen tape looks best IMHO but you can use any old kind as long as it doesn't come off by itself.
I used a scalpel, a x-acto or any kind of sharp knife should do just fine.
For the light diffusor you can use plain writing paper.

Comments

[rohitksinghal]

do we have to put the concave side of the lenses facing each other or the other way round.

[rohitksinghal]

so basically on one side we got to use the just the tape and on the other side the 3d glass. or on both the side we got to use glasses?

[knglaser]

both filters are used, turned the correct way so the light is blocked

[zyckel]

Works great, thanks.
I have been taking pictures for many years so I had a couple of polarizing filters.
Filters are easily adjusted while looking at a part.

[wolfkeeper]

Are you sure these glasses are circular?

The one's I've looked at have been linearly polarised, at 90 degrees to each other.

[knglaser]

yes, its the RealD 3d kind, you know when you can rotate them without the movie being affected

[eiloxcn]

Wow！I like this instructable!
But can normal LCD display play a Real3D video? Can I convert a normal video to a Real3D video?

[rimar2000]

Interesting!