Oooohhh Pretty Lights!!!

So I'm sitting in another one of my parents' chinese association dinner thingies and i noticed the chandelier sitting above my head. I thought, hm I wonder what makes them so shiny? So I began thinking about the individual parts of the chandelier. First would be the lights. These are probably just ordinary lights. Nothing really special. However, what make them so brilliant are the large number of crystals surrounding the lights. Because the bulbs give off light in all directions, light hits most of the inner side of the crystals. This in turn, refracts the light inward and bends it in different angles. Because of the large number of crystals, this results in many beams of light going out and meeting at your eye. As you walk around the chandelier, the lights seem to glimmer in and out. This is because as you move about, different light beams reflecting off of different crystals hit your eyes. In this way, the lights look as if they are changing. Another ceiling mount that also creates an interesting effect is the disco ball. This is really just a sphere covered in mirrors and placed in a radial pattern so that any light that hits it is reflected off the mirrors in a even design. Fascinating how things with such simple designs can be so pretty, no?