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Trigger
Point
Amy Patton
Tegel
Tegel Airport’s hexagonal
main terminal building is reimagined
as a prism. Light
passes through the prism and
is bent, or refracted, by the
angles and plane faces of the
prism, and each wavelength
of light is refracted by a
slightly different amount. Red
has the lowest frequency and
is refracted the least. Violet
has the highest frequency
Each colour is refracted differently, so each bends at a
different angle, resulting in a
fanning out and separation of
white light into the colours of
the spectrum.
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