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Letter: Letters: Eye shadows

Published 19 June 1993

From IAN SIMMONS

The ‘Holister Effect’ sounds like the effect produced by one of the exhibits
in ‘Science Alive.’ the hands-on science centre here at Snibston Discovery
Park. In our ‘Blood Vessels’ exhibit, the user rests a small light on their
closed eyelid and wobbles it to-and-fro, producing just the effect
described – sharp black blood vessels against a pink background, these
being the blood vessels running across the retinal surface.

Ian Simmons
Leicestershire County Council
Snibston, Leicestershire

Issue no. 1878 published 19 June 1993

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