Just found out that polarized sunglasses and helmet visors are a bad combination. I was greeted with a whole new colorful world!

Seriously, it almost made me nauseous.

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    It’s even worse if the polarization of each is rotated.

    The closer to 90° from one polarized lens to the next, the less light comes through. At 90° rotation lens-to-lens, all light is blocked.

    Try it with your sunglasses and the visor removed from the helmet. Slowly rotate the visor and you should see it get darker and darker.

    • datendefekt@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 months ago

      It’s just my sunglasses that are polarized, not the visor itself. Looking at glass or plexiglass with a filter, you see colors a little like this: