TrulyPrismatic® Glass
TrulyPrismatic ® Glass
A world first and unique laminated safety glass which generates rainbows from sunlight. Suitable for installation on building facades and in skylights, as well as a glittering interior feature. Manufactured to customer requirements. Patents have been granted for this product in Australia, United States and Europe.
Attributes & Options
Lamination GenuinelyCertified™ to AS 2208 and international safety glass Standards
Integrated Solarguard® Solar Control available
Can be integration into insulated glass units (IGUs)
Bullet, Blast and/or Forced Entry resistance available
Available flat and curved
Sizes to 4500 x 2400mm or 8000 x 1200mm
Gallery
GenuinelyCertified™
Architectural Products
FAQs
It is a patented product with a precise structured surface of prisms that refract and redirect light rather than just transmitting it. The prisms are laminated on a backplane of glass which can be flat or curved. Depending on the prism geometry, it can bend incoming daylight up onto a ceiling, scatter it for diffusion, reject high-angle summer sun, or create decorative optical effects such as rainbows — all passively, using refraction and total internal reflection.
It is a laminated safety glass used as a decorative feature in facades of buildings and in internal installations. It can be manufactured in a transparent form or with a mirrored rear surface for installation as an opaque feature or against a wall. Transparent panels can be installed as a skylight. When exposed to sunlight in the appropriate orientation it generates vivid rainbows in transmission, and some in reflection. It can be designed to effect solar control and to redirect daylight.
Flat panels up to 7000 mm high x 1200 mm wide can be made with the TrulyPrismatic® elements parallel to the height. Panels can be installed adjacent so that joins are not obvious, allowing any width of wall or façade to be achieved. Flat panels up to 5000 mm high x 2400 mm can be manufactured. Curved panels up to 3600 mm high x 1500 mm girth can be manufactured. Other sizes and shapes are subject to enquiry.
Yes, it can be incorporated into IGUs.
It obscures a clear view of people or objects away from the glass panel, but has a high level of light transmission with most of the light refracted and reflected away from direct transmission, so that images are broken up. It can be provided with various options for translucency where privacy is required, such as with etched glass or Shoji® ricepaper encapsulated.
Critically. Prism geometry is directional and the orientation of the prisms relative to the sun will determine the optical effects, and to some extent, the decorative and aesthetic effects.
Custom prism geometry; toughened or heat strengthened backplane; installation in a DGU for thermal and sound control; integration of solar control to enhance SHGC; transparent or translucent or mirrored panels.