Patent 7430038 was granted and assigned to Purdue Research Foundation on September, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Photoelastic elements are formed deliberately with stress concentrations so that, when evaluated with a polariscope, more pronounced isochromatic bands or fringes result when loads are applied to these elements or to assemblies of these elements. A toy for producing color patterns and having polarizing filters coupled to frame elements is disclosed.