Teleidoscope Science Display - Beaverton, OR
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An Outdoor Teleidoscope Interactive Science Display located in Beaverton, Oregon
Waymark Code: WM12487
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 02/23/2020
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This interactive science display within Tualatin Hills Nature Park is described as a kaleidoscope, but in reality is a teleidoscope. Kaleidoscopes have closed ends and create patterns from colored glass or other reflective material within the viewing tube. Teleidoscopes have open ends so that whatever in the outside world the teleidoscope is pointed at becomes the basis of the reflective patterns. Spinning the bowl of the display changes the created images. Tualatin Hills Nature Park is located at 15655 S.W. Millikan Way Beaverton, Oregon. There is off-street parking on the east side of the park from SW Millikan Way. The park is open dawn to dusk every day. The coordinates are set to the public display.
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About the artist:
Robert C. Anderson from Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin is a Metal Sculptor who specializes in garden kaleidoscopes, inflated steel pieces, and metal sculptures. Robert started creating such sculptures in 1997. He was born in Seattle, Washington and graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, with a degree in Limnology Fresh Water Ecology.
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Kaleidoscope video:
This video was created by the artist and shows a typical pattern as seen through the display. I added sound and cropped it slightly.
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