Research Results Summery

On Tuesday 17th I went into town and brought two mirrors which I could play around with trying to reflect a light across the room, in an attempt to simulate a projector being reflected onto the wall.

From this experiment I discovered that the best way of doing this with the mirrors I had was in a completely dark room, also I feel that much larger, plain/flat mirrors would be more suitable to reflect a projection should I use it in the show.

Below you can see how I have setup my experiment model of a parxinoscope in 3D studio max. The middle column has had the ‘Raytrace’ material added to it so that it will reflect the objects spinning around it, giving the effect of movement.



From doing this experiment I found that it worked much better with the camera spinning around the centre column as opposed to the outer objects spinning around. In real life the camera (human eyes) would remain still as they turn the objects giving the effect of animation.