Wi-Fi in visible color looks pretty dreamy.
(Credit: Nickolay Lamm)
At this very moment, I’m surrounded by Wi-Fi. I can’t see it, but I know it’s there. If my life were a fantasy film, I would be able to wave a wand and make the Wi-Fi appear all around me in dancing waves of color. Since I’m a little short of magic right now, I’ll have to settle for artist Nickolay Lamm’s interpretations of what Wi-Fi looks like.
Lamm didn’t just scribble some waves across photographs and call it done. He consulted with astrobiologist M. Browning Vogel on how Wi-Fi behaves. The resulting images were created to mimic the wave patterns, if only they were visible to the human eye.
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