Abstract: Method and apparatus for creating highly articulated lenses and lens arrays from the combined effect of a clear-sided container of clear liquid whose sides are of uniform, conventional thickness, and may therefore be manufactured with conventional methods at conventional prices. The container's sides are shaped into the form of the surface of a lens or lens array, and in combination with the clear fluid within, whose index of refraction is close to that of the container wall, performs the function normally performed by a single lens of glass or plastic and focuses light on a plane within, or outside of said container. Such a container can be used both as an enhanced labeling display for clear fluid containers such as water, soda, liquors, liquid soap and many other liquid products, as well for as a display device only, enabling otherwise impractically thick and expensive lenses.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for creating lenticular, or other types of images that change with respect to the angle from which images are viewed in a bar of soap, including a method of printing a lenticular, “fly's-eye” or other type of image onto either the soap itself, or on a non-toxic, food-safe, substrate with non-toxic, food-safe inks, or by projecting an image onto non-toxic, food-safe photo-sensitive emulsion layer within the soap, and creating a lenticular, or other type of lens array with a clear or sufficiently transparent soap material as to display lenticular or other integrated image properties, such as 3D, motion, flip, zoom, color change, morph, and others. Additionally, the lenticular array is located within the soap bar such that the soap will not destroy the image when first used, but only after a large portion or almost all of the soap is used up or consumed.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for creating highly articulated lenses and lens arrays from the combined effect of a clear-sided container of clear liquid whose sides are of uniform, conventional thickness, and may therefore be manufactured with conventional methods at conventional prices. The container's sides are shaped into the form of the surface of a lens or lens array, and in combination with the clear fluid within, whose index of refraction is close to that of the container wall, performs the function normally performed by a single lens of glass or plastic and focuses light on a plane within, or outside of said container. Such a container can be used both as an enhanced labeling display for clear fluid containers such as water, soda, liquors, liquid soap and many other liquid products, as well for as a display device only, enabling otherwise impractically thick and expensive lenses.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for creating lenticular, or other types of images that change with respect to the angle from which images are viewed in a bar of soap, including a method of printing a lenticular, “fly's-eye” or other type of image onto either the soap itself, or on a non-toxic, food-safe, substrate with non-toxic, food-safe inks, or by projecting an image onto non-toxic, food-safe photo-sensitive emulsion layer within the soap, and creating a lenticular, or other type of lens array with a clear or sufficiently transparent soap material as to display lenticular or other integrated image properties, such as 3D, motion, flip, zoom, color change, morph, and others. Additionally, the lenticular array is located within the soap bar such that the soap will not destroy the image when first used, but only after a large portion or almost all of the soap is used up or consumed.