Infinity Mirror Toy Mark II

I uploaded the prototype and now you get to see the final version. Its made from an ikea mirror and a table top, a drum that was just perfect for the mirror to fit in, 3 shelving brackets, 2 LED strips purchased from deal extreme, 3 pots, some switches and resistors. Thank you to my dad who did most of the drilling, made sure what I was doing made sense and provided a lot of the materials.

See the prototype - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcQwNiWMa8w&feature=channel_video_title

LED strips used
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/waterproof-1-meter-4-5w-30-led-rgb-light-strip-d...

Another good LED product
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/rgb-150x5050-smd-led-multicolored-light-strip-5-...

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Science & Technology

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• mirror
• infinite
• project
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• IKEA
• Frame
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• LED
• cool
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• extreme
• dx
• drum
• table
• optical
• illusion
• infinity
• RGB

[MrStetzz]

What type of second mirror did you use in front? a two way mirror? please help :)

[pdeboer1987]

@MrStetzz I bought a glass table top from IKEA (~20$) and applied a GILA window film (~40$) that is semi reflective making it a two way mirror.

[Shakeitupyes]

why does it eventually go black?

[pdeboer1987]

@Shakeitupyes Thanks demigod I understand the question now. Even with a 100% reflective mirror, some light must get to your eyes through the half mirror on top. Every time the half mirror reflects half of that light is lost. Other reasons exist like demi's thought that there is no such thing as a true 100% mirror. If you want a longer illusion you have to use a more than 50% reflectivity. This means though that you need a darker room to see the illusion.

[fubleduck]

@pdeboer1987 Also, I think the image would be dimmer as less light is coming out. There may be more image duplication, but the less observation light must have a 2 edgged sword effect. I have a lot of trouble seeing more than 11 imdups of led point lights. I HAVE managed to raise the definition in terms of more graffic resolutions.A wall of flashlights for instance, similar to Larry Llund's "Bottomless Pit". I guess it's true...everything you observe changes.

[pdeboer1987]

@fubleduck There are more factors to how many reflections you can see other than the amount of light provided by the LED's. As the reflectivity of the top mirror goes up so do the # of reflections. As the space between the mirrors decreases, the #of reflections goes up, but the perceived depth goes down. My mirror looks like it shows 11 or so as well. The depth however is something like 20'. It looks like the barrel leads into a hole in the floor.

[fubleduck]

@pdeboer1987 Is there an "aparent depth" limit? I think I achieved at least about 5 or 6 '. I have them on Youtube.

[fubleduck]

@pdeboer1987 Everything you observe changes. I have trouble getting more than about 12 image duplications of led pointlights. I HAVE gotten lower numbers of high resolution images, as Larry Llund did w/ his "Bottomless Pit" (I like to call them "chinascopes)

[ForgerOfPie]

Steve Jobs didn't die... he jumped through one of these things. ;)

[ivanblanton081]

made it to were i can flug my ipod into one. its amasing stoned!

[PivotDude90thCentury]

Switching to Hyper-speed in 3...2...1...

[Shakeitupyes]

@pdeboer1987 interesting. that makes sense though.