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December 22nd, 2009, 03:05
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/500x_teslachristmas.jpg (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/teslachristmas.jpg)I hope Santa's careful around Peter Terren's Christmas tree (http://gizmodo.com/tag/christmastree/), because the thing is a Tesla coil with some color filters set up to make all the sparks, zaps, and electric arcs look oh-so-pretty. Yeah, that pretty tree could kill you.
This isn't the first time that Terren has made a Tesla coil Christmas tree, nor do I think it will be the last. He uses slow exposure (http://gizmodo.com/tag/slowexposure/) photography to capture these incredible image, taking about two minutes for each of the shots. You can check out his site for some behind-the-scenes pictures of how he arranged the project.
In the meantime, I'll just be here ooh-ing and aaahh-ing for a while. [Tesla Down Under (http://tesladownunder.com/Xmas.htm) via Neatorama (http://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/tesla-coil-xmas-tree/) via Make (http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/12/tesla_coil_christmas_tree.html)]
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This isn't the first time that Terren has made a Tesla coil Christmas tree, nor do I think it will be the last. He uses slow exposure (http://gizmodo.com/tag/slowexposure/) photography to capture these incredible image, taking about two minutes for each of the shots. You can check out his site for some behind-the-scenes pictures of how he arranged the project.
In the meantime, I'll just be here ooh-ing and aaahh-ing for a while. [Tesla Down Under (http://tesladownunder.com/Xmas.htm) via Neatorama (http://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/tesla-coil-xmas-tree/) via Make (http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/12/tesla_coil_christmas_tree.html)]
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