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Optics

Further questions, extensions, and related atmospheric optics beyond the primary bow.

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Wave Optics of Rainbows

Optics

Why interference matters for the fine structure and color detail of rainbows.

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Geometrical Optics of Rainbows

Optics

The ray-optics picture of refraction, reflection, and rainbow angles.

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History of Rainbow Mystery

Optics

How people understood, misunderstood, and gradually explained rainbows.

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Simulating Rainbow Colors From Zero

Series

A 4-post series on building up rainbow colors from historical ideas to geometrical and wave optics.

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