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Interference

Interference patterns of street lights seen through a tulle curtain. Narrow openings (slits) in the curtain cause the light to be bent and interfere on the camera sensor. The constructive and destructive interference cause high and low intensity bands. Also the white light is resolved into its constituent colors through interference.

 

From Wikipedia:

Interference is a phenomenon in which two waves superpose to form a resultant wave of greater or lower amplitude. Interference usually refers to the interaction of waves that are correlated or coherent with each other, either because they come from the same source or because they have the same or nearly the same frequency. Interference effects can be observed with all types of waves, for example, light, radio, acoustic, surface water waves or matter waves.

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Uploaded on February 16, 2015
Taken on October 16, 2013