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Original illustration of an infinity LED mirror with nested glowing rings and a side-view inset showing LEDs between a rear mirror and a partially reflective front panel.
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Holography & tricky projections / Modern LED display · earlier mirror principle

Infinity LED mirror

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A shallow frame seems to contain a deep tunnel of lights. A single row of LEDs becomes a chain of reflections that fades into the distance.

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Follow the repeated rings towards the centre. Each gets smaller and dimmer. Then inspect the side-view inset: the actual lights occupy only the narrow gap between two mirrors.

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Through Mirror · original explanatory diagram

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Original explanatory diagram created for Through Mirror. It illustrates the optical principle and is not a photograph of a performance or installation. Gallery previews may be resized or converted to WebP; animated previews show the first frame.

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What is Infinity LED mirror?

A shallow frame seems to contain a deep tunnel of lights. A single row of LEDs becomes a chain of reflections that fades into the distance.

What should I look for in Infinity LED mirror?

Follow the repeated rings towards the centre. Each gets smaller and dimmer. Then inspect the side-view inset: the actual lights occupy only the narrow gap between two mirrors.

What explains Infinity LED mirror?

The front panel lets some light reach your eyes and reflects some back towards the rear mirror. The light bounces between the surfaces, producing successive virtual images at increasing apparent depths. Each round trip loses light through transmission and absorption, so the copies fade. Perspective makes the repeated LED outlines look progressively smaller.

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Original two-panel diagram showing an object wave and reference wave meeting at a holographic plate, then a developed transmission hologram reconstructing a virtual object for a viewer on its opposite side.

Transmission holography — Optical Interactions

Gary Fisher · Optical Interactions

A flat glass plate reconstructs light from a still life. Move sideways and the objects reveal a different view, as though you were looking through a window.

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Original reflection-hologram diagram showing a lamp and viewer on the same side of a plate, with selected light returning to the viewer and dashed extensions locating a virtual image behind the plate.

Reflection holography — Cassadaga (Spirit Pond)

Matthew Schreiber · Cassadaga (Spirit Pond)

A lamp illuminates a flat plate and an image appears to occupy depth. The light returns towards the viewer from a recorded structure inside the holographic material.

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Original comparison of rainbow-hologram viewing: two side-by-side views of a generic sphere show horizontal parallax, while vertically stacked views change from red to green to blue without adding a new vertical perspective.

Rainbow holography — Benton’s Sphere

Stephen A. Benton · Sphere, made at Polaroid

A hologram becomes visible in ordinary white light. Move sideways to explore depth; move vertically and its colour changes through the spectrum.

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Original illustration of an infinity LED mirror with nested glowing rings and a side-view inset showing LEDs between a rear mirror and a partially reflective front panel.

Infinity LED mirror