How Infinity Mirrors Work - With Experiments

when I was building my first to infinity mirrors I started playing around with them and I noticed some interesting effects today I'll be explaining how Infinity mayor's work I will also be going over some of the effects that can be made with them for an infinity mirror you'll need at least three things a light source a mirror and a partially transparent mirror normally the mirror will have its reflective surface on the outside of the glass this would be the back of the Infinity mayor the partially transparent where it can have its reflective surface on the outside of the glass or the inside typically it will be a layer of film that is applied to it so having get on the inside protects the film from scratches then when the light source turns on the light reflects between the two mirrors actually it reflects between the reflective surfaces he reflects back and forth in between but on the partially transparent side some of the light gets out this is a light that you see from the outside each time the light escapes from the reflections it gets dimmer inside for the infinitive image that I made I did it a little bit different though instead of a regular mirror and a partially transparent mirror I use two partially transparent mirrors [Music] and when the light comes on it still reflects off both sides and light would escape from both sides this allowed me to have the two-sided effect that I was trying to get this got me thinking if I needed a light source and two reflective surfaces what if both of the reflective surfaces were on one piece of glass when the light turns on some of that light would pass through the first surface then reflect between both surfaces obviously some of the light would reflect away at first but the light that does pass through should result in an infinity effect now let's try that out and see if it actually does here I have a build and when I turn it on great seems to work but then I remember I have a back piece of glass on here this bad glass is clear and has no reflective film on it at all the reflections you see are just from the natural reflections of clear glass without that glass it looks like there may be some effect this camera doesn't like the bright light so let's get a better view there is a little bit of an effect but it's almost unnoticeable it kind of just looks like a blur after thinking about why this is I realized that there are two causes for this issue first most of the light is reflecting away for the back next is the thickness of the glass it's only two millimeters thick so there isn't much of a distance to separate the reflections next let's see what a few changes can make here I have my two-sided infinity mirror from two different angles you can see how the reflections look using two partial mirrors let's replace that back panel for a regular mirror to see the difference it makes this effect is much better it's brighter more clear and it goes deeper now for the cool part adding the parcel near back in but leading the normal mayor to it looks a bit blurry but if I lift the two-sided and feeding a mirror away from the normal mirror it stretches it out I can even move it around and make the tunnel appear to turn and curve even without the back partial mirror I can get a stretching effect when lifting it but I like that effect better with both partial mirrors in place and since I used plastic for my partial mirror in the front I can bend the plastic with a little bit of pressure to warp the tunnel but do you not try to bend more class like this that's all for now I'm still going to explore more options with this if you have any ideas or suggestions please leave a comment and let me know I would love to hear them

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Length: 5min 33sec (333 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 13 2018