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You wouldn't be blinded, since the light from the flashlight would only provide a limited amount of energy. I guess you'd see a huge, magnified, curved image of yourself holding a flashlight, like looking into any other concave mirror.
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For some strange reason, I have been thinking about this question for over a decade. Don't ask me why. My conclusion: You will see a field of brown-ish color. I came to this conclusion based on my understanding of incandescent light. Essentially, what will happen is, the waves of light will spread out from the source and bounce off the mirror in an infinite number of directions, which will again bounce off the mirror in an infinite number of directions, and again - slowly bouncing fewer and fewer times due to the lack of energy in the flash light (i.e. after a certain distance, a light wave will become weaker and weaker, not because the power source in the flash light runs out). While the light waves are bouncing around the mirror in an infinite number of directions, they are also bouncing off of you and the flash light. Since each person is an assortment of varying colors, the end result is that those colors will all wash together as they are bounced around and around in an infinite number of directions. It becomes an additive color source due to the body (clothing, skin, hair, flashlight) absorbing portions of the spectrum. Result: brown. If you were wearing primarily red, the brown would be warm in tone. If you were wearing blue, cool in tone. I'm open to alternative theories. |
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Is there gravity in the sphere .... yes I do realise we're floating... but the lack of gravity would change the diffusion of light. In my guess making the light continue to reflect an infinite amount of time.
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Ok, this was killing me. I cheated.
I made a sphere with a reflective inside with OpenGL and put the camera in the center. At first I didn't see anything, so I put a square in the center of the sphere (the camera doesn't physically exist). So the square represents the person. I then made a light source emminate in the angle the camera was looking. I saw just the reflection of the illuminated side of the square. If I reversed the direction of the light (have it point in the antipode of the camera's angle), then I saw a shadow of the square. It looked just like a solar eclipse, only.. with a square. So, sorry, I cheated. ![]() Of course, this isn't the real world so lets look at a few things: Manx: Brown wouldn't be the color. Light doesn't refract when it's reflected, so it can't be split into a specific part of the visible spectrum. Prosequence: Light can't continue infinately in the sphere because light cannot cover an infinite distance. Certainly light can cover a VERY long distance, but not with flashlights. From the origin of the flashlight to the edge of the sphere, the light will travel 15'. With every reflection after that the light will travel a maximum of 30'. Even less because that is the distance from the centerpoint... which is blocked by the person. sen_tom: This is what the effect looks like. Nothing special unfortunatly ![]() Last edited by Robaggio; 11-03-2004 at 09:37 PM.. |
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So you have pictures of it or you don't?
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When I use Window's print screen, my application is all blank. So I need to write my own print-screen function for the demo. That'll take a few days :/ |
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I would be suspicious of any computer generated images which do not entirely follow the properties of light. As I mentioned, I tried modeling this scenario with Alias Wavefront Studio - a 3D modeling package for product development (electronics, cars, anything). It's a $10,000 software product. It crashed during the raytrace rendering. Last edited by Manx; 11-03-2004 at 11:46 PM.. |
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Holy Geez. The mind boggles. When did you first think of this? Or possibly why? Wouldn't the image directly in front of your eyes, show your eyes, and then everything would distort outward from there???
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thought about this a bit and i'm guessing you're asking what you see when you look at the sphere. I mean if you just look down you'll mostly just see yourself, but if you look beyond that and into the mirror I dont think you'd see brown. Mainly because although the light bounces off everything only a few paths goes to your eyes. So while there are many colors, they shouldn't overlap to fuse in any such way. Not sure if what i'm saying makes sense, but yah.........
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I originally thought of this scenario many years ago, one night, when I had smoked too much (?) pot.
Around the same time I also decided to question the conventional wisdom that two mirrors, facing each other, was infinity. I had taken some physics books out of the library - one of which made that claim. I had an epiphany that it was not infinity. Here is why: what you are seeing when you place two mirrors face to face, (wrongly) assuming you could even make them perfectly aligned in such a manner, is nothing more than light bouncing from one to the other. Because light is traveling so quickly, there is instantly over a billion reflections (the precise number of reflections would depend on how far apart the mirrors happen to be). I actually took the time to calculate how many reflections would exist in 1 second if the mirrors were exactly 1 foot apart. It was over 1 billion reflections. So, although that is quite a large number, it is not infinity - nor would it ever be infinity unless time is infinite (in which case, nothing is not infinity - but then we start to get into the area of physics which is much more like mushrooms and less so like pot). And recall, this assumes that the mirrors are in perfect alignment, which would be impossible to attain. Even the smallest misalignment would result in the eventual end of reflection. Much like two lines, if not perfectly perpendicular will eventually meet at one end, and drift further apart at the other. ![]() |
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It is still a visual representation. It requires light to travel through the camera lens in order to reproduce the effect. The initial light bounces off the TV, it travels to the camera, through the lens, is processed and displayed on the TV, which then illuminates and travels to the camera lens.
Repeat about 1 billion times per second, depending on the distance of camera to TV. Also, adjusting the circles to line up would not be a perfect alignment. Even with the most precise measurement tool ever invented. Infinity is unknowable. |
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First I need to define my view of the starting situation:
You are floating in the middle of a 30 foot perfect sphere, the inside of which is a perfect mirror. There is nothing other than you and a flashlight in the sphere, not even air, but we are ignoring your requirements for life at the moment. You switch on the flashlight. Now for what you would see: The sphere is focused on one point, the center. If you were to look from that exact point then you would see your eye (or retina). However, because the light source is not in the exact center you will have more interesting things happen. You would first probably see yourself, distorted by the curved surface. If you remained perfectly still then it would be a stable system as your body eventually would absorb all of the energy the flashlight was putting out (some paths of the light might be extremely long, and take some time to reach you). If you moved your head you might see interesting things, such as images of previous moments in the sphere that were still bouncing around, but most likely they would be smeared beyond recognition. After some time I think you would see an even glow of the average wavelength your body and clothing reflects and the color of the flashlight. If your flashlight did not ever run out of batteries, you would eventually burst into flame and your observations would end. |
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Supposedly if you lay light onto a curve of a perfect sphere, you can defy time. So technically I would see the past/future while exsisting in the present. (Assuming that's what would actually happen) I would be in the middle of trying to compress my mortal mind in the cruch of times, hopefully surviving the newborn awe.
Either that, or the inside of the sphere turns into a giant lightbulb.
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About the flames thing: It would be hard to say. Can the sphere conduct heat (inside the system and outside)? If so, and if a vacuum conducts heat, then you would need one bigass flashlight to burn yourself. It would theoretically heat your body over time, but homeostasis would keep your body temp neutral and release the excess heat. The heat would be conducted into (and out of) the sphere. The only way I could see a flashlight burning you is if it was focused on a really, really small point. Like the sun and a magnifying glass scaled down. Last edited by Slavakion; 11-16-2004 at 12:35 PM.. |
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