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🔥 Schlieren Optics Airflow

🔥 Schlieren Optics Airflow

August Toepler's 1864 Schlieren photography system. Visualizes invisible thermal convection plumes and supersonic shockwaves via refractive index gradients.

CLICK & DRAG THERMAL SOURCE ACROSS COLLIMATED BEAM Refraction Gradient ∇n Active
Knife-Edge Cutoff Depth 65%
Convective Turbulence 1.2x
Aperture Filter:

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