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  <description><![CDATA[1st Place: The polarized light from a monitor and the camera close to the Brewster&#39;s angle, makes the reflected image sensitive to phase delays in the plastic lenses, producing a nice colored pattern. <i>Osvaldo Buccafusca, Avago Technologies, Fort Collins, Colo., U.S.A.</i>]]>
  
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  <description><![CDATA[3rd Place: When illuminated with grazing white light, a semiconductor chip behaves as a diffraction grating. Variations in the features&#39; size and illumination angle produce various colors along the chip. <i>Osvaldo Buccafusca, Avago Technologies, Fort Collins, Colo., U.S.A.</i>]]>
  
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  <description><![CDATA[Diffraction pattern of a penrose type quasicrystalline lattice that exhibit the inherent 10-fold rotational symmetry. The image is presented on a molten plastic background. <i>Amit Agrawal, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.</i>]]>
  
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