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🔮 Glass Christmas Bauble Optics: Convex Mirror Image and Ball-Lens Sunlight Focus

Trace rays exactly through a Christmas bauble: a silvered ball forms a small upright virtual image (convex mirror equation), and a clear glass ball focuses sunlight (ball lens, spherical aberration) onto paper. Seven in-page numerical checks.

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Glass Christmas Bauble Optics: Convex Mirror Image and Ball-Lens Sunlight Focus ↗ Open standalone
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Trace rays exactly through a Christmas bauble: a silvered ball forms a small upright virtual image (convex mirror equation), and a clear glass ball focuses sunlight (ball lens, spherical aberration) onto paper. Seven in-page numerical checks.

Geometric OpticsConvex MirrorBall LensChristmasRay Tracing

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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