So we would only see black, or our own pupil. Is this really the retina? If it is the retina then would a cat would see anything different as their retina has a reflective layer, the tapetum lucidum, behind it?
As one comedian once said, about the universe being a simulation: the light stablishes the limit of the rendering of the universe. Nothing can be rendered further, and where it's not casted, nothing is rendered at all. I found it to be just genius.
You should do a black spherical mirror! I saw one at a science museum, and it blew my mind. It's just a regular polished black plastic concave dome and it produces the craziest 3D reflections I've ever seen. I would love to see a video explaining how and why they work.
@@mikesmithz whats the title of the video, I cant find it? It sounds like youre describing those old toys that looks like ufo's where you put an object inside and then close the shell and you can see the object through the hole in the top as though its a hologram hovering in the air above it, those were always fun to play with
When I was a child, I visited a bathroom that had two opposing mirrors on opposite walls and it was the first experience I can recall of ever experiencing eternity. But the first thing that I noticed was that , as the reflections continued into the distance, it became darker and darker with each reflection. Ever since, I had always wondered what a true eternal mirrored room would be like, if there was a source of none reflecting light and somehow no reflect of your POV.
I did this allllll the time as a kid with the tri folding bathroom vanity mirror. Angle both side mirrors and look to the side and see (what seemed like) hundreds of reflections
Yeah lol. Music, well, the whole soundscape in general has such power in videos and games. One of my favs was Alien:Isolation for general aural mastery.
it does sound similar to Mass Effect but I dont recognize it as one of the actual tracks. That said, youd be amazed at how many youtube videos do use actual ME tracks, I think the oddest place Ive ever heard ME music was on a Hoarders episode (well, multiple actually). I have no idea how they dont get copyright strikes
@@iamsushi1056 very difficult to produce properly too I’d imagine so doesn’t surprise me. In order for all that to work, you would need a very good algorithm and design that allows the stereoscopic viewpoint to stay even and properly spaced during viewing. This means lots of cameras and lots of post processing.
One of the cameras would always be guaranteed to be offset from the center, so one of them would be guaranteed to see something other than its own pupil.
Woah! That effect with the pen self-intersection was amazing! I'd love to see more videos about 3D reflections like that, I had no idea that was possible
It's called a real image, formed by light rays reflected by the concave mirror from a point on the real object converging on another point in space. You can see them in a shiny bowl or spoon. There's an old knickknack they used to sell at Sharper Image-type places that looked sort of like a flying saucer with a hole on top--it was a pair of concave mirrors facing each other, and if you put a small object like a coin inside of it, a real image of it would appear in the hole, visible from most diagonal angles. It'd look pretty much exactly like the real object sitting on top of the saucer, in three-dimensional detail, but you tried to grab it you'd soon find it was not really there. If you looked directly down from overhead it would give the game away.
@@MattMcIrvin omg yeah my friend has one of those, I'm amazed I didn't even think about it during this video until you brought it up. I wonder what the definition of "real" is in this instance "real image" I'm gonna have to look that up 🤔
@@MattMcIrvin thats the first thing I thought of, those toys were really cool. It literally looks like the object is sitting on top of the ufo-shaped thing until you try to grab it and your hand goes right through it :D
(This seems to be sold today under the name of the "3D Mirascope"--it's often described as making a hologram but of course it's not a hologram; it's an image of an actual object that is inside the device.)
Gives me black hole vibes. These insta360 cameras are absolutely amazing. It can make some videos look 3rd person. The post processing freedom is also amazing.
I have the Evo, shame Insta360 stopped making them and never came out with a consumer replacement. Even though the 3D cameras are niche, it was one of the best on the market.
@Someoneishere114 you already are there. You surrendering to that is heavenly. You are fighting, arguing that its not is grief. The cycle of grieving.
I did. At 3:45 we are at the surface of a black hole 🕳. All we see is the univers, our body. You recognize yourself and by definition are conscious. You don't recognize yourself and by definition are unconscious. You are aware of even that. 😅 That is how powerful consciousness is. Which is what you are. Nice to meet you
Yes, for real. If you put an atom real close to the center, you should be able to see it :) Action Lab bro should give that a try maybe with his mirror.
Looks like this is something that needs to be done as an interactive art project. Someone has to build a huge mirror sphere that can close around you for a bit
Action Lab guy really puts in the effort to make us these videos and I love em! Sadly he is now facing 2 months in jail for breaking the Chicago Bean for science 😔
It’ll probably just be a solid colour since the laser beam will eventually hit the camera lense making anything else hard to see since it’s over exposed.
Starting at 7:13 he puts a laser pointer in the one hemisphere mirror, but for some reason he had it turned OFF. Maybe he tried it off camera and didn't want to record it.
@@Geoffr524 I'm not sure about the power of the laser pointer he had but if it was somewhat powerful maybe he was concerned with damaging the camera if it took a direct hit? Idk though since I'm a bit out of touch with tech like cameras and such...
I think you should try to do this with the world’s most reflective material so light doesn’t get absorbed so quickly. Or make an infinite mirror with regular mirrors compared with the more reflective material and see if you can get more reflections before the light he gets absorbed
Light bounces of millions of times within a matter of second. Do you still think that it will last for even 1 milli second even if the mirror is reflecting 99.99% of light😊
What he means by quickly is after how many reflections light gets fully absorbed. Not after how many seconds. If you can increase reflectivity by one order of magnitude (99.99% vs 99.9%) you get ten times the reflections.
you can probably buy one, or like me, try to make it myself xD smear some molten aluminum on a glass bowl/hemisphere while hot, and let it slowly cool.
@@Metal_Master_YT bro loved the idea, even though aluminum is easy enough to work with its not near shiny enough!, finding the right bowl and casting in sand was easy but this chunk of shit needs polished hard..
@MrThis1dude what I described is basically how all mirrors are made. most glass has a naturally smooth surface (from being molten), and since its amorphous, it does not form crystals and therefore keeps that smooth texture after cooling. while it's still semi-hot (at melting point of aluminum), you can put a thin layer of aluminum metal on it, which will wet the glass and form a mirror. I've seen people also do this with gallium, but aluminum has a higher reflectivity of visible light than most other metals with the exception of silver. aluminum on its own will become rough upon cooling due to crystallization and shrinkage, so the usage of smooth glass is a key factor here. I should mention that the mirrored surface is the surface on the inside (between the aluminum and glass), not the outside surface that is exposed to the air. Aluminum reflects about 90% of visible light compared to 95% for silver and less than 90% for basically all other metals.
@@MrThis1dude a plastic bowl? idk how you would ever get that to work. I guess I should test my method on some glass and see what happens. technically my method varies from the usual in that I am making the thin layer of aluminum by melting instead of by vacuum vapor deposition or chemical deposition.
Hi, I have a very big curiosity What if the sphere has a mirror surface on the inside but on the outside you can see inside, and you point a laser through the sphere What is gonna happen inside if the mirror surface reflects the laser beam towards the other side of the sphere and that is a mirror as well?
This was an incredible exploration! I never thought about what the inside of a mirror would look like. Your experimentation and explanations make complex concepts so easy to understand.
0:26 Subscriber of your channel for 2 years here. I really appreciate you trying out new ideas, but i really loved your content as the no nonsense-straight to the point-blow my mind away content. In my opinion, There's no need to add segments like memes and acts in the vids as your content has me captivated anyway. Cheers!
Okay, first of all, the physics of what's going on here is awesome, and thanks for sticking a 360° camera inside a sphere, but the music definitely made me want to play Morrowind.
A mirror ball reflects all of its surroundings. Only reflections of things hidden behind the ball are not seen when we look at the ball. M C Escher made an amazing drawing based on this effect.
Could you do the same experiment but with one-way glass instead? So light could enter the sphere from outside but it would be reflected on the inside...
Thank you, I also was wondering it some days ago and thought I would see some really interesting stuff. But it wasn't that different of a thing except when it looks like you pass through the image of yourself to enter a black space behind the image.
It's a cute little sticker you added to the camera, but it REALLY did a great job at giving a frame of reference to all the visual weirdness that happens inside a spherical mirror. Thank you!!! 🤯
A Super cool experiment my mother did once for an art class was to take four full length body mirrors, the kind you hang on a door, and tape them together facing inwards. Then cap the ends of the box with mirrors as well. You can cut down another mirror to do this. Have one end be hinged so it can open and close easily. Then crawl inside the mirrors. Once inside turn on a flashlight and experience true panic as you see the infinite worlds of the multiverse.
This is cool; I was playing with the Idea of infinity, and how it reminded me of a room of mirrors meant to confuse. If I'm not mistaken, the first part of your experiment, is part of an optical illusion thingy that people can buy, with an alien or a frog in the middle. The second part comes a little closer to what's in my head.
Thanks! But I think it It would be great to watch if you also have made the back picture on one side of the camera - that way we could check if you’re able to see yourself in the sphere from all sides - and which reflection is showing which side.
7:23 "It can even go into itself" I'm sorry, but I HAVE to Call BS on this, you Tried (with a POOR Fake) to show us a dichotomy of space & matter! All the Time-traveling & Alternate Universe movies tell us that the same matter Cannot occupy the same space.
@02:24 *It's like putting a 360-degree camera inside a large spherical soap bubble. And i like bubbles more, because they are perfectly spherical when they float & glide in the air* .
We did half of this in high school physics lab, we put a small lit light bulb at various points on the spherical mirror axis and sure enough at some point you get a magnified real image of the bulb floating in air. It's the floating coin illusion. Some magnifying make up mirrors are actually a partial sphere and are fun to play with.
3:40 The inside of the mirror looking flat like you're landing on a surface reminds me of a ScienceClic video where when you enter a black hole it would look like you're just slamming into a black floor.
I've always wondered what a lightbulb inside of a spherical "one-way" mirror with the reflective surface on the inside would look like. Might be a fun video, or not. :D
