First we wired up an LED and made a chipboard channel to shield the LED from sight and to direct it through the edge of the plastics.
We tested this setup with several types of plastic...
Clear plastic:
Frosted plastic:
Colored plastics:
Overlapping plastics:
Plastic rods:
And finally engraved plastics:
I found this project that could be helpful for your research. The result is cheasy but the system is interesting.
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Phosphorescent materials
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