https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_KCXM3gHF8

I did some testing with a piece of acrylic.

https://youtu.be/siBkv48-GuM

https://youtu.be/bRCMu8my83A

Testing results:

• Acrylic as reflection material Iridescent ****acrylic has some interesting traits. It’s reflective enough, but not yet a mirror, and the reflected color is beautiful.
• The lighting needed Normal phone lighting is pretty nice already. I think ER will have stronger lighting which is sufficient in brighter environment. I kind of want it to works in bright environment, for the mechanism and effect to be more unexpected.
• The relative position of acrylic, light and wall I tried to put acrylic in two different positions, one on the side wall, and on the back wall. Both work, but the side wall will distort the shape of the acrylic more. Both can enlarge a 20 cm high acrylic into about 1 m, with the distance of about 1 m.

https://youtu.be/xcmiHOFtDpA

I found this interesting effect in my testing. The acrylic is able to give shadows to both wall in the same time. With one wall only show the original object’s shadow, and the other wall showing a mirroring effect. I was thinking to play with this effect.

2 possible structure for using this property.

I want it to be able to be visible in brighter environment.

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Key Question

1. What should be the “object”, a found object? the audience?
2. What should be moving/rotating? the object or the “mirror”?
3. Is interaction necessary?
4. Material for the mirror? (Need to be reflective and transmissive in similar extent)

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