Dichroic Glass is a multi-layered coated glass borrowed from the optics industry and NASA. To create the coating Quartz Crystal, Titanium, Zirconium and other metal oxides are vaporized with an electron beam gun in an airless vacuum chamber. The vapor floats upward, condenses and attaches onto the surface of the glass in the form of a crystalline structure. Colors have as many as 30 layers of these materials, yet the thickness of the total coating is approximately 35 millionths of an inch. The main characteristic of Dichroic Glass is that it has a transmitted color and a completely different reflected color. These two colors shift depending on the angle of the view and light giving the opalescent effect.
Dichroic on black reflects but does not transmit.
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When fusing dichroic, it will shift. It ends up showing mostly the reflected color.
When fusing Yellow/Blue dichroic glass, it will shift into Yellow/Purple dichroic, mostly appearing as Purple, the reflected color.
