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Kaleidoscope often made as opaque tube, which inside contains a system of mirrors. At one end of the tube is fixed light filter, the other end of the tube is used as the eyepiece. Light toy kaleidoscope filter formed by two parallel lenses that are fixed in parallel at a distance of a few millimeters apart. External usually a piece of glass is frosted. Between glasses poured cauliflower pieces of transparent glass or plastics. The system mirrors represented by three (sometimes two or three more) folded lengthwise angled mirror plates.

Image of colored light filter elements are mutually reflected in the mirrors to form symmetrical patterns. When rotating the tube around its longitudinal axis through these changing patterns of light pouring element filter.