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Dilating Artificial Eyes
Last summer I met an occularist, Fred Harwin, and got to talking about the possibilities of making an artificial eye dilate. The idea is that if you found light reactive or UV reactive pigments, that perhaps you could bring out the iris when in bright sunlight, and then that paint could disappear in darker situations thus simulating the natural dilation of an eye. Well, the other night my old friend Ian Coulter called me about some reading he had been doing to this end. I’d asked him some months back about if he’d ever come across anything like that in his years of sculpting. Nothing came to mind at the time, but he got back with me the other day with a few links of interest.
http://www.pburch.net/dyeing/dyeblog/C763608095/E20100908081145/index.html
http://www.forscher.com.br/ingles/index_ingles.htm
http://www.solarcolordust.com/Site/Products.html
Now I know, throwing down a bunch of links isn’t exactly quality journalism. But the truth of the matter is, I want to keep track of them here for later reference myself.
It seems like no one is really designing these kinds of pigments for use in eyes, but I think that even making a bright purple eye would be worth it. If it worked, you’d have something to go back to the company with and surely more natural colors could be designed. Solar Color even offers free samples if you’re ready to show off a good project. What could be cooler than this?