I'm in Detroit, Michigan at the moment teaching a class in AI here, and yesterday my host, Bryce Denison of the Midwest Photography Workshops took me to the Matthaei Botanical Garden in Ann Arbor. Among the many plant exhibits, there was one in which two kaleidoscopes were attached to a metal frame aimed at a large bowl filled with plants. You could rotate the bowl, and looking into the kaleidoscope was wonderful. The viewing port, though --typical of these things -- was too small to put a regular lens against. So I used my iPhone 15 and was rewarded with an endless number of amazing patterns. There are Photoshop plugins as well as AI commands that do the same thing, but this is straight out of the camera phone. It was a lot of fun.
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