Idea 1: Spark

Things that I explore or experiment more about:

1. How does different shape of ice spark? tube, cube, cup
   
2. How does ices spark when they are combined together? cup shape, etc..
   
3. How does sparkle change when put in different texture? salt, alcohol
   
4. How does light reflection differ in varying color? red, yellow, green, orange, black, white
   
5. How is ice spark different from other materials? ice, plastic, glass, acrylic

1. How does different shape of ice spark?

Cube:
There are many textures that may contribute to how it sparkle. Anyhow, the one I test have too many textures inside that everything appear blur.

This one is clearer and have less texture inside so the texture stands out. It is like a firework inside. The bubbles spread from one spot.

Glass:
White at the toppest edge,, due to light. Seems like there are line. There are sometimes bubbles.

Dark background is the best to be able to see the texture. Super blur at the bottom. You can't see a thing there. This means that there're so many small bubbles within.

Looking at the glass when it's broken. The place where light hits turn totally white like on the edges. There is somehow path or each section of the glass. For this one is a diagonal path raising slightly. There are also so many small bubbles inside that it appears white. Sometimes there are large bubbles and when it melt, the bubbles inside also get bigger and so it shine more. When it's clear it would appear in a smooth shade...it's different from when there's many small bubbles inside.
The glittering effect of ice that make itself unique is maybe due ot holes and bubbles inside ice.

Hexagonal:
When shaped as a hexagon-like shape, the ice acts the same as when it's shaped into a cube. The bubbles inside remind me of a city under water where there are a lot of corals and bubbles.

This is the bubbles I was talking about.

Tube:
Sudden change in gradient or shade like black to white or light gray to white shows on where the hole is. The two sides of ice sometimes appear light and sometimes dark. It somehow looks cloudy. The edges are super light almost white all the way.

There is a dark spo9t in the middle. The outer diameter doesn't have any dark spot. It only contains light gray-white spark. The pattern on the ice is a line from the center to the outer circle.

2. How does ices spark when they are combined together?

• Dark near the edges due to the dark background. However, if the background isn't black I expect it to be a darker color but not as dark as black.
• Light at the edges (outline)
• Sparkle differently due to different texture of each o the ice, Some of them looks like has asteroid pattern.
• What seperate each ice in my vision are the light edges of each. also, it seems like a line.
• the reflect due to the light distort once, twice, again, and again. The spark is almost unpredictable as the ice's shape is curved and its thickness ain't the same. Also, there are many layers of ices.

The holes inside or bubbles inside ices shouldn't be too small or else, the sparkle would be too hard to be seen. Therefore, an adequate size if bubble or hole gives the best sparkle in my eyes.

3. How does sparkle change when put in different texture? +
4. How is ice light reflection differ in varying color?

1. There are white lines everywhere. The feeling is the same whn touching a normal ice.
2. Looks like coconut meat inside.
3. There's like an asteroid pattern or moon pattern on it. The white lines seems like it's sparkling. Dark at the bottom. All the patterns appear at the top which used to be the bottom.
4. Super light yellow color. There's a stipe due to the effect of salt. Clear at the bottom.
5. It looks like it has a fiber inside.
6. I can see small spikes at the edge as the salt does it effect on making the pattern.
7. The crack is dark so it gives more of the jade-like feeling which is inside the ice.
8. I noticed that the spikes appear only when it melts. The spikes usually align with one another.
9. There is a stonen pattern as there are color clustered in a line.
10. Shining especially on the tip of each spikes that hit the light. There seems to be texture under.
11. Because I put in little black water color in it, there is some black stain on the ice. The pattern looks like a kind of rock.
12. The black ice sparkles the most as the white light color differ so muck from the black ice.
13. Normal ice with no pattern. Just bubbles insdie and smooth outside.
14. Also has pattern on top although it's really hard to see.
15. There's some pattern on it. It's not blue at all. The color is the same as normal water.
16. The pattern is more clear than normal water with salt. Not blue.

The black cube with salt is the most beautiful as there's a pattern on top. Anyhow, the other colors doesn't bring out any unique ability of ice's shine.

5. How is ice spark different from other materials?