Reading list

General

• Basic Machines and How They Work
• Light and Its Uses: Making and Using Lasers,Interferometers and Instruments of Dispersion

Pattern making

• Make Moving Patterns: How to Make Optical Illusions of Your Own
• Pattern and Design With Dynamic Symmetry
• Kaleidograph OpArt

Composition

• The Art and Science of Digital Compositing: Techniques for Visual Effects, Animation and Motion Graphics

History

• Thomas Wilfred’s Clavilux
• California Video: Artists and Histories
• Vector Synthesis: a Media Archaeological Investigation into Sound-Modulated Light
• Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light
• Optics and Optical Instruments: An Introduction

Color

• A Dictionary Of Color Combinations
• Interaction of Color