Light enters the display, goes through a polarizer, and is twisted by a liquid crystal material. The first successful LCDs used two types of liquid crystals – chiral and nematic. By combining ...

This change in orientation affects the light's ability to pass through the liquid crystal layer, enabling the display to produce images ... This light then passes through a second polarizer, the ...

It’s a 10 foot by 90 foot LCD display that uses 6 inch square glass panels containing the same liquid crystals you’d find in a calculator. The display/installation is called Patterned by ...