'Rain'



I exhibited a new Magic Mirror entitled 'Rain' with the seaec organised exhibition in Hastings at the beginning of October.

Looking into the Magic Mirror results in the appearance of heavy rainfall upon your head and shoulders. The rain splashes off you; moving your hands and head and body create a silhouette in the rainfall.

photo thanks to Mike Blow

A different approach to using the Magic Mirror this time and it was interesting to watch peoples different inter/reactions with it compared to the previous versions.

Because a literal silhouette of yourself was defined in the computer generated rain, Sometimes it didn't match up with your true reflection and then the illusion became less convincing. This was a technical challenge which I initially attempted a simple stereovision photogrammetry approach to solve. Due to its sluggishness to achieve anything accurate in the end I went for an enhanced single camera technique! (sorry boring tech bit)

I will look at using stereo in the future.