Most people think of mandala images, when it comes to kaleidoscopes. Mandala images in kaleidoscopes usually have 8 identical sections around a

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1 Most people think of mandala images, when it comes to kaleidoscopes. Mandala images in kaleidoscopes usually have 8 identical sections around a center point, like slices of a pie.

2 Rose stained glass windows are also fine examples of mandala images.

3 Our kaleidoscope has not only 1 but 3 almost-complete mandalas, in each image.

4 To add variety and interest, each 1 of the 3 almost-complete mandalas are different from each other. And, instead of 8 identical sections, our mandalas can be divided into a much less common 3 identical sections.

5 Unfamiliar Flower Image Familiar Flower The mind takes our kaleidoscopic images and tries to organize the colors and patterns into something meaningful. At first, they resemble rare, exotic blooms as if from a lush, tropical island garden or an other-worldly enviroscape.

6 Each of our images has 3 different almost-complete mandalas. It's the same idea as a hybrid fruit tree in bloom. From 1 common trunk, there may be 3 different fruits. For example, purple, blue and red plums.

7 The Garden of Eden set of colored tumbling pieces consists of 3 subsets: Healing (green and yellow); Serenity (blue and green); and Vitality (red and blue). Each display chamber holds 40 pieces (7 shapes, 7 colors and 2 sizes). Shapes: sun, moon, star, earth, angel, heart and eagle/hawk. Colors: yellow, clear, sky blue, dark blue, green, red and black. Sizes: A delicate balance so that they don't weigh down the rotation. Shown above from left to right, is a demonstration of a subset; its image; and pansies, The Happy Face Flowers. Like the images, which have 3 almost-complete mandalas of like color but different patterns, each group of 3 pansies has like colors but different patterns. The pansies also represent the fact that our images resemble flowers.

8 An eye's like a camera. Both collect light and change it into an image that we can translate. Both focus light using a lens. The retina captures the image in an eye, like the film captures the image in a camera. KaleidoView Portal side view clear dome (Cornea) collection drum holding colored tumbling pieces (Iris) apex opening in mirror structure (Pupil) mirror structure captures image (Retina) focuses light via angles (Lens) Likewise, the side view of this scope, reminds one of the diagram of an eye. The difference is that light enters the front of an eye but the back of a kaleidoscope. Some kaleidoscopes use a lens to magnify an image. This one didn't need a lens. If the eyes are the windows to the soul, then perhaps these kaleidoscope windows are the eyes to the soul. Vitreous Gel Iris (colored tumbling pieces) Cornea (clear dome) Pupil (apex opening in mirror structure) Lens (mirrors focuses light via angles) Iris (colored tumbling pieces) Optic Nerve (electrical wiring) Macula Fovea Retina (mirrors capture image) Eye Diagram side view

9 Stained glass windows may also be pretty, but this one has added layers of protection against the weather. * viewing pane * apex of mirror structure SUN 1) Dome's frosty satin finish 2) Colored tumbling pieces 3) Metal mirror structure 1 4) Front-facing silver mirrors 4 5) interior bezel frame with viewing pane * apex of mirror structure: 8+" base * viewing pane: about 10" radius 2 1 WIND 6 1) Dome deflecting 2) 2 layers of display drum 5 3) Colored tumbling pieces 4) Metal mirror structure ) Glass mirrors 6) Viewing pane 7) Interior bezel frame

10 Modern stained glass windows may have a second layer of glass outside of the colored layer of glass, but it's flat. The curved dome on this kaleidoscope holds the weather at bay, further away from the hole through the wall. Even stray leaves, twigs and kids toy balls will simply roll off the curved surface. Because it's curved, the force of the blow is less than on a flat surface. The metal mirror structure also offers impact resistance /- F +/- F +/- F Temperature 1) Air-filled dome 2) 2 layers of display drum 3) Colored tumbling pieces 4) Metal mirror structure 5) Glass mirrors 6) Viewing pane 7) Interior bezel frame Precipitation 1) Dome 2) Dome 3) Dome 4) Exterior bezel frame 5) Caulking or mortar 6) Rubber gasket inside 7) Thumb screws outside deflecting:hail, snow, sleet, rain,fog.

11 KaleidoView Portal images change. One never knows what to expect next. This enhances anticipation. Those in stained glass windows are stuck frozen into only one image. Flowered Image - our kaleidoscope Beaded Image - other kaleidoscope Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, changing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. -John Muir ( ) Jeweled Image - stained glass It's common for kaleidoscopic images to resemble jewelry. Many even use beads for their colored tumbling pieces. It's also common for stained glass windows to use 3-D colored glass spheres, called "jewels", in their designs. Both are pretty. However, that makes our kaleidoscope's image that much more unusual, because it resembles flowers. Not only that, but the whole image looks 3-D, like half of a geodesic dome.

12 Temporal Beauty KaleidoView Portals are a moving experience. Temporal Portals Moving Book and Art by Kenneth Libbrecht Art by Anatta Art by Marty Noble Dover Publications I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design, and no one design was ever repeated. When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind. - Wilson Bentley, pioneer snowflake reseacher and photographer And here comes the snow, a language in which no word is ever repeated. - William Matthews ( ) Each snowflake is a crystal mandala. Like kaleidoscopic images, it's unique; will never be repeated; and soon disappears, only to be replaced by another. One observer commented that "(our) kaleidoscopic looks like a portal to another planet." He was contemplating the blue and green Serenity subset of colored tumbling pieces, pictured on the Jewelry page that you just saw. Our kaleidoscopic not only has moving mechanized parts, but its images move and change. On a more metaphysical level, this mandala demonstrates various symbols for transformation. Seeing our kaleidoscopic can soothe, excite and feel healing to people. In short, it can move them.

13 A combination of Art and Technology The Next Evolution Ordinary

14 Voilà! Shape, pattern, color, lights and motion

15 One observer said in earnest upon seeing our kaleidoscope for the first time, What is it... a time machine? It does have hints of the past, present and future. 0:00/1:00 stained glass window KaleidoView Portal interior String of Pearls lights - exterior of KaleidoView Portal at night Stained glass windows evoke memories of medieval castles and cathedrals, or old Victorian houses. The Past. KaleidoView Portals can be mistaken for stained glass windows when seen from the inside, until the motor and lights are turned on. The Present. When seen from the outside, they can also give the impression that they're high tech, like computer videos downloading. One observer said they remind him of a UFO. The Future.

16 Past Present Future wooden freestanding wall mounted metal freestanding A scotsman named Sir David Brewster, Invented the kaleidoscope in He also discovered other laws of optics, using tools such as prisms. One more element from the past was adapted into KaleidoView Portals. Henry Ford invented the concept of, and procedures using, interchangeable parts. The main round part of this kaleidoscope device is basically interchangeable between models. Copyright 2017 KaleidoView Portals v18-08/02/17