Circular Mirror Room

I guess i just figured out how i'll be spending my morning at work, scouring google for the answer.

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Originally posted here by ©opy®ight
hahaha at the explode thing. What if you brought a circular camera that can record every angle at once(which im sure doesnt exist yet?) ?

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Would this do the trick...http://www.chipwrights.com/contentmg...ails.php/id/37

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Originally posted here by dalek
Would this do the trick...http://www.chipwrights.com/contentmg...ails.php/id/37

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Two Problems:

That shows outside the circle... not inside

It pans... not a full 360 degress at once :)

Peace,
HT

I found this

Don't ask me to explain all the equations, i left my brain in my other coat

OK, spent enough time searching an i've concluded it is definitely a mathematical thing, most likely geometry. It has to do with shapes and how many sides the shape has.

If you take a pentagon and you stand at the center and bounce light off a side, the light is reflected off of that surface at the same angle that it came at, (sort of like billiards) causing multiple images.

Now, since there aren't really any sides to a circle, you can't really bounce the light off at an angle (as long as you were in the center). So all light is directed back to the center.

The part that puzzled me was, what is in your peripheral view, what would you see. I've finally concluded it would be mirror.

So, you would only ever see a single image of your self at any time, that is if you were at the exact center. If you were off center then you could in fact hit the mirror at an angle and causing multiple light refractions and then seeing multiple images.

Now lets take the case if you could take a 360 degree picture. The cameras we have are panoramic and then they are super imposed over one another. I'm guessing you would see as many of you in a circle as how ever many pictures were taken to create the view. Or......one 360 degree blob of color.


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i want to modify this slightly. actually if you stood off center of the circlle, you would only see a reflection if you looked straight across from your self, any other reflection would go directly to the center of the circle, where you are not. One last thing, i could be totally off, but at least i did give it a shot

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Ok, well when i get home from work today, i hate working on Sunday, i will be making this scenerio in Bryce, and if i don't think its graphics and reflectionsa re good enough ill try it in 3d-studio max. Hopefully if i have enough time to work on this i will be able to post a pic of what it would look like by monday night.

Already seen the results at a carnival. We had semi-circle mirrors. You will only see a distorted view of yourself with the exception of a small sliver directly ahead if you were looking at your nose. Your image will be bent to conform to the shape of the mirror. sorry

cheers

Forgot to add that it will resemble night time photography, all with a blurr like the a picture being taking of lights on a moving car.

cheers

Assuming that you're standing in this mirror cylinder, if you look at the scene in front of you at any deviation from level you will see the reflection of the ceiling or floor.

Unless of course they too are mirrors, in which case you need more "adult" brownies.
4dc

You would disapear into a black hole.

Warning: attempts to prove me wrong will only result in waisted money and time. So just say im right and lets move on. LOL