RainbowSpec: all about rainbows!
(Science Week, day 2!)
Today's excellent selection is a fully-contained independent site, full of explanation and illustration, peripheral to Solaria's Webspace on Neocities, the lovely [Web Home] of our online neighbour Simon.
It's called "RainbowSpec", and it clearly breaks down and explains the concepts behind what happens when light is reflected, refracted, and otherwise modified to create rainbows.
The existence of this site strikes me so deeply, because light, colour and rainbows were such an obvious nexus of fascination and curiosity for me as a child, seemingly so universally appreciable, that I assumed just about everyone must naturally be equally curious about it. A little information about colour and light came to me in grade school, but not nearly as much as one might expect schools to exist to share readily.
The Web hadn't arrived yet, but I think I would effortlessly have spent the available hours reading and exploring this site if it had. Now it does exist, and any child today who finds it need no longer wait – so hopefully this post helps someone find it. ^ ^