The Fluorescing Cell

Seeing Life Through New Light is the follow-up exhibition to the highly acclaimed touring exhibition called Tripping The Light Fantastic.

FifeX has produced a number of exhibits for this programme as it has expanded over two years.

Cells behave in peculiar ways when under the influence of certain colours of light. This interactive explores those properties and goes someway towards explaining the chemical composition of Cells.

The giant ‘clover’ light sources simulate the shining of coloured light using LUXEON ultra bright LEDs – then the cell responds in the appropriate way. As with the other cell, this exhibit can either be totally self-sufficient or can be hooked up to an external display source where the videos and on-screen images are used to supplement the process – particularly useful for lectures or large spaces.

A late addition to this cell was the inclusion of IR LEDs which function when the red light is shone onto the cell – users can’t see anything happening until the webcam is turned on – this add-on has proved particularly popular.

The cells made their first major appearance at Cheltenham 2009

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