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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/motorcycles

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Just found out that polarized sunglasses and helmet visors are a bad combination. I was greeted with a whole new colorful world!

Seriously, it almost made me nauseous.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's even worse if the polarization of each is rotated.

The closer to 90° from one polarized lens to the next, the less light comes through. At 90° rotation lens-to-lens, all light is blocked.

Try it with your sunglasses and the visor removed from the helmet. Slowly rotate the visor and you should see it get darker and darker.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It's just my sunglasses that are polarized, not the visor itself. Looking at glass or plexiglass with a filter, you see colors a little like this: