Kaleidoscopes and Light Painting

A big thanks to Johnny Griffin for putting together these patterns, releasing the esoteric art of kaleidoscope construction to the masses.

Teleidoscopes, understanding form and function
Patterns for 3D kaleidoscopes

Johnny added to the work shared in this video by Make, Build, Modify in order to produce his documents above. He also has a link for how he uses the 3D scopes.

Here's a great article (spanish) on Light Painting with Kaleidoscopes by Antonio Martinez Tomas, and another tutorial (german) by Alexandr Gnezdilov.

Here's a page with slideshow for making kaleidoscopes by Dana Maltby, TCB. Additionally, here's a video by Olivier Fay that talks about the same subject.

Finally, here's a link to our image feed, with all images tagged with Mirrors/Kaleidoscope.