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What would it look like if you would be standing in a round room and its made of mirrors ? No door nothing just mirrors (dont ask how you would get into the room without doors)...This just popped into my mind and i couldnt find much on google or maybe i didnt type in the right terms, so if anybody can find a site or has a comment on this, post please.
Hey Hey,
Now when you say circular.... do you mean one rounded pane of glass made this mirror (I.E. it's like a donut or a tire... one continuous side) or is it made of many panes...
And if so... how many... If it's a certain number of sides.. then you can use math to tell ya what'll happen but if it's one continuous side... then I'd say that's an interesting question...Quote:
Sides Name
9 Nonagon, Enneagon
11 Undecagon, Hendecagon
13 Tridecagon, Triskaidecagon
14 Tetradecagon, Tetrakaidecagon
15 Pentadecagon, Pentakaidecagon
16 Hexadecagon, Hexakaidecagon
17 Heptadecagon, Heptakaidecagon
18 Octadecagon, Octakaidecagon
19 Enneadecagon, Enneakaidecagon
20 Icosagon
30 Triacontagon
40 Tetracontagon
50 Pentacontagon
60 Hexacontagon
70 Heptacontagon
80 Octacontagon
90 Enneacontagon
100 Hectogon, Hecatontagon
1,000 Chiliagon
10,000 Myriagon
Three more questions...
What are the dimensions of this room? Radius/Circumfernce, or length of sides (if a polygon)
Where are you standing... dead center, off center, against one of the sides..
Where is the light source coming from... and how powerful (intense, direct, etc) is it?
Perhaps you should find someone who's good with 3D modellers and have them do you up a little video... Dunno how good the physics are for reflections (haven't used any of that software in years) but I'd guess they're pretty accurate by now..
Peace,
HT
Um.....like yourself perhaps?Quote:
Originally posted here by ©opy®ight
What would it look like if you would be standing in a round room and its made of mirrors ?
Albeit disorted depending on mirror configurations like HT specified.
Did you think of this question before or after you had some..."adult" brownies? :D
If it was a single pane of glass with a perfect curve... damn...
Obviously we know what flat panes would reflect, it'd just be whatever is in the middle of the room....
I now have a headache. No more thinking for a while.
WHOA! You just blew my mind!! :eek:Quote:
Originally posted here by ©opy®ight
What would it look like if you would be standing in a round room and its made of mirrors ? No door nothing just mirrors (dont ask how you would get into the room without doors)...This just popped into my mind and i couldnt find much on google or maybe i didnt type in the right terms, so if anybody can find a site or has a comment on this, post please.
You shouldn't freak me out like that so early in the morning! :hippy:
I am thinking that if you looked straight ahead, you would see yourself as perfect as you would see yourself in a regular mirror, but it would be thinner version of you... like in a funhouse.
...but then again, what would the rest of the mirror show? Assuming you are right in the center, every piece of the mirror (equal to your height) would show you as well, so I assume it would be blurred all the way around. Have you ever taken a picture ond the objust moves in the picture, like that! The bigger the circle, the longer the streaks, right?
I did a quick search too, all I could find was what light does near the sides of a circle, as in the following picture:
-Deeboe
What dopp said, a single perfectly curved pane, maybe like 20 feet radius. and you're standing on the bottom. any source of light, a bulb hanging on top, i just can't put my mind what it would look like since every side has to reflect you and then the opposite side will reflect you too and the opposite side of the room so itll reflect the back of you too right ?
thinking about it, if it were perfectly round, there would be no reflection of the opposite side reflection, that is if you are perfectly in the center. That would be because you would be in the way of the projecting reflection. Make sense?
Ok that makes somewhat sense, but wouldnt like the right "corner" reflect the "side" mirror that reflects the back of you?
it has to do how the light is reflected off of the mirror and back to your eye. you can only see any "single point at any single time. So no matter where you looked you would see your imaging looking at your image, there would be no repeating images. All light reflection is back to the center, back to your eye. Tell you this, I'm only guessing based on what i think will happen to the refected light. It sure would be a great experiment to try, fearing that when i actually saw the image, i'd explode.
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?) ?
I guess i just figured out how i'll be spending my morning at work, scouring google for the answer.
Would this do the trick...http://www.chipwrights.com/contentmg...ails.php/id/37Quote:
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?) ?
Two Problems:Quote:
Originally posted here by dalek
Would this do the trick...http://www.chipwrights.com/contentmg...ails.php/id/37
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.
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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
origin of the black holes = circular spinning mirrors
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