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Clap Disco Ball
A brief history
The 70s was an era of dance, music and disco balls. You will always associate the two with each other. One is incomplete without the other. The disco parties were awesome in those days. The music used to be hip, everyone was into dancing and the dappling lights used to create a wondrous effect on the audience. Disco ball were ‘in’ to say the least. Everywhere you went, you would see disco balls whether it was in key chains or earrings or even necklaces, disco balls were every where. However, it should also be known that the disco ball concept is much older than the 70s. Disco balls used to be very popular in the 1920s. That is almost fifty years before the 70s arrived. The first recognized televised appearance of a disco ball was in a nightclub scene in Berlin: Die Sinfonie der GroBstadt, a German silent film from 1927.
However in the current days, the disco ball has been forgotten as it has been made obsolete with the arrival of stroboscopes and lasers. These are much more effective in creating the same effect in a more proficient way and at less cost with little hassle. The technical development has not been all bad for the disco ball. More modern techniques has been implemented to create new effects and usability Examples of such advances is the clap disco ball and lighting up the disco ball by hitting it with laser beams..
The Mechanism
The disco ball effect has a pretty simple explanation. The clap disco ball is a spherical shaped ball. The sphere is covered with rows of almost equal shaped and equal sized mirrors. These mirrors are glued to the ball using the adhesive. As mirrors cannot cover the ball completely, there will be spaces in between the mirrors due to the ball being a sphere. Therefore it is important that the paint what is similar to the nature of the mirror is used to form the base of the ball so that it does not break the light reflections.
Now as rays of light fall on the ball, the mirror reflect the light and each mirror is pointing to some specific direction due to the spherical nature of the ball, light is reflected in different directions. Different colours of light would mean that the reflected lights are bound to flow in sync with other and this is how the disco ball effect is created. As the disco ball starts to rotate, light is reflected all around.
Present day disco ball
The disco ball and clap disco ball may not be as popular today as they once were but they are still used in some nightclubs and you can’t help but feel nostalgia when enter one of these clubs. The prime example of these clubs is the club ABC in Glascow, Scotland which has the world’s largest disco ball.
Clap on!
This is just one of the new sophistication touches that technology brings along. A clap disco ball is basically a normal disco ball however the electricity connection can be turned on by a clap, thereby leading to the name clap disco ball. Imagine all your friends sitting in your house. You stand and motion everyone to get ready as the disco is about to begin. Your friends look at you as if you have gone insane. You ckap your hands and voila! The disco effect has started. Ofcourse you can clap again!
