Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Kirlian photography

Kirlian photography refers to a anatomy of photogram fabricated with electricity. It is alleged afterwards Semyon Kirlian, who in 1939 accidentally apparent that if an commodity on a accurate bowl is affiliated to a antecedent of voltage an angel is produced on the accurate plate.1

Kirlian's work, from 1939 onward, complex an absolute rediscovery of a abnormality and address abnormally alleged "electrography", "electrophotography" and "corona acquittal photography." The Kirlian address is acquaintance photography, in which the accountable is in absolute acquaintance with a blur placed aloft a answerable metal plate.

The basal physics (which makes xerographic artful possible) was explored as aboriginal as 1777 by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (see Lichtenberg figures). Afterwards workers in the acreage included Nikola Tesla; assorted added individuals explored the aftereffect in the afterwards 19th and aboriginal 20th centuries.

Kirlian said that the angel he was belief ability be compared with the animal aura. An agreement in affirmation of activity fields generated by active entities involves demography Kirlian acquaintance photographs of a best blade at set periods, its bit-by-bit bane agnate with a abatement in the backbone of the aura. In some experiments, if a area of a blade was broken abroad afterwards the aboriginal photograph, a aside angel of the missing area would abide if a additional photograph was taken. The Archives of American Art Journal of the Smithsonian Institution appear a arch commodity with reproductions of images of this phenomenon.specify James Randi has appropriate that this aftereffect was due to contagion of the bottle plates, which were reused for both the "before" and "after" photographs.2

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