What is the deal? I got these polarized glasses from my GF and went driving today. I believe my car has stock tinting. It was purchased used. I can only describe the effect of some sort of rainbow waves. Do I just get used to it? Do all tint jobs have this effect?

 

maybe its a magical gay car

 

You know I never thought about that...

Any window tinting people can chime in now....

 

rainbow waves where? on the tint?

 

hahahahah like hidden gay pride flags.
dont you know all gay guys where those glassesd to identify each other?

lol i kid, sorry im no help either.

 

I've experienced the same thing before with a pair of glasses. All factory tinted windows with the chemical layer between glass layers gave me the rainbow. A couple of times I got a similar effect with some no-name aftermarket films. Get used to the rainbows, or get new glasses.

 

Ive seen this effect too so dont worry your not alone. not sure what causes it I think it had something to do with the reflexive ability of the tint and the way it looks threw polarized glasses.
It sure would be nice to know what causes this but at least I know im not crazy not either.

 

It's the polarized glasses... try looking at an Ipod screen while wearing them. You'll see the same thing.

 

You must have accidently activated the gaydar.

 

I wear Oakley iridium Polarized sunglasses only and also have tinted windows.

the reason the rainbow effect or oil mixed with water look happens is because Polorized lense are made to focus out certain color spetrums/uv spectrums. With tinted windows this becomes noticable because the tint is already filtering the light and UV rays.

 

Your car says:

I've always loved you, Michael.

 

mine tint and polarized glasses give me the waves too

 

I might have to save the polarized lens for fishing. You guys crack me up with the gay jokes though....LMAO

 

its normal. its the polarized glasses. also a good way to test if there really polarized. there probably one of the best sunglasses you have owned aren't they? i know mine where b4 they broke

 

Yeah I see it too on my Oakleys. I also can't see my phones LCD screens or my headunits LCD.

 

Yeah kinda weird huh.

 

had the same effect with some old oaklys that were polarized , got some new ones and there it no rainbow , but i have after market tint

 

I'm not sure I can get used to this. It's like having 3D glasses on.

 

The reason you sometimes can't see the LCD screen is because LCD screens also have a polarizing filter in them and when you look through two polarizing filters that are at opposing angles, no light passes through. This has to do with the way polarizing filters work.

Here is a visual...

Light waves travel in all directions and orientations (Waves: | / - \ = )

Visualize a polarizing filter as a filter that only allows vertical waves to pass (Waves: ||||).

Now visualize an identical polarizing filter rotated 90*, in this rotation only horizontal waves pass (Waves: ======).

When you layer them, they cancel each other out and no light gets through.

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This is how they filter out glare. They only allow light to pass through in one orientation.

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Next time you look at your phone through your polarized sunglasses, rotate the phone and watch the screen go black and clear up again.

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Here is an interesting tidbit. If you want to invert the color on an LCD (gray text on a black background instead of black text on a gray background) rotate its polarizing filter 90*. This changes which light is allowed to pass through, in effect, inverting the colors.

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The reason you see rainbows on certain surfaces while wearing polarized sunglasses is the same principle. Basically, the glare was hiding it. Well, thats one way of thinking of it. Take a look at a plastic screen/window. You'll see stress points show up as rainbowed areas.

 

Your sig shows guys kissing...'nough said. lol

Good to know stuff, tho. Now I'll pay attention to what sunglasses I wear...especially after I tint my windshield. Swat

(I KNOW that's illegal and I'm only using 50%. Thank you.)