Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> The first mention of the shape of the Lens in _Galactic Patrol_,
> Kim's just before it is given to him, is "a lenticular jewel
> fabricated of hundreds of tiny, dead-white gems." After it's
> installed on his arm it's "a lenticular polychrome of writhing,
> almost fluid radiance."
>
> In _First Lensman_, Samms's first sight of his Lens is as "a
> lenticular something ... composed of thousands -- millions -- of
> tiny gens, each of which emitted pulsatingly all the colors of
> the spectrum."
There must be *someone* marketing a roundish full-colour
illuminated display of the right size and with a resolution of
some thousands of pixels. That could probably be set up
under software control to give about the right appearance.
Failing that... well, a suspension of tiny high-refractive-index
transparent prisms in a viscous transparent gel, with bright
white back-lighting, would do it.
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