What is dichroic glass?
Dichroic glass is beautiful sparkly glass
that was originally developed for the aeronautics industry.
It must be manufactured in a vacuum chamber where an electron beam deposits
many microscopic layers of metallic oxides, such as magnesium and titanium,
on glass. This metallic coating absorbs and reflects different colors
of light at different angles, making the glass multi-hued.
fusing together cut pieces of flat glass.
the rest is iridescent glass.
Because of the complexity involved in making it, dichroic glass is quite
costly, $100- $200 per square foot. It was originally created for satellite
mirrors, but it now has many high-tech applications in fiber optics, infrared
lasers, motion picture equipment and even sun glasses.
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