Redditor [ squishy0eye] lacked a coffee table and wanted an infinity mirror. So, in a keen combination of the two, she built an infinity mirror table the resembles a nighttime cityscape.
Skimming over many of table’s build details, [squishy0eye] paused to inform the reader that an MDF base was used underneath the mirrors, with a hole drilled for the future power cable. For the top pane, she overlaid privacy screen mirror film onto tempered glass, turning it into a one-way mirror. The bottom pane is acrylic plastic due to the need to drill holes to hide the cables for each ‘building’ — the same mirror film was applied here as well. Wood was cut into rectangles for the building shapes and super glued around the holes and in the corresponding spots underneath to prevent any bowing in the acrylic. A small gap was left in each ‘building’ to run the 5050 non-waterproof LED strips around and back into the hole for power.
After installing the bottom mirror, [squishy0eye] added some black paper on top of the buildings to hide the wires and LEDs as well as adding wood supports around the edge to create the slight gap between the mirrors necessary for the effect.
A quick LED test, and the top pane of glass was fit into place, creating an effect well worth the approximate $150 price tag.
Want some more LED action to compliment such a cool table? How about a TV made of LED strips that you can roll up and take with you.
Heh, that’s neat!
I dunno if it would cause me anxiety though if I couldn’t train ppl to only put their drinks etc down on top of the “buildings” :-D
Cool!….Really COOL!!!!!!!!!! Nice and stylish design hack! Bravo!! John
All it needs is a few matching lamps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuoQ3cFd6Cg
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Would an infinity table or lamp look good with the LEDs positioned psudo-randomly?
I can’t visualize it in my head but I’m sure somebody has made one.
I think I know what you’d like, but I don’t think you can have it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axo6YpDt9f0
It just isn’t the same if it isn’t the flying Windows 95 logo.
Stacked fading pixels (infinity mirror principle) will ruin starfield. For that you need more pseudo 3d/hologram project like http://hackaday.com/2015/02/08/dead-simple-hologram-effect/
Yeah to get a POV effect you’d have to turn the LEDs on and off at impossibly high rates, the speed would have to be on the same scale as the transit time for photons between the two mirrors.
Something I’ve been thinking about too… Maybe something like the image below, but with the ‘z’ layer offset and closer together… with LEDs individually controlled, it should give the pseudo-random effect…
(In case the image doesn’t show: https://cdn.instructables.com/FJN/F0KM/FE7ITU05/FJNF0KMFE7ITU05.MEDIUM.jpg)
I like it, nice innovation on the standard infinity table.
Careful making your own! Do not get the math wrong…
http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/Pics/DivideByZero.jpg
LoL :)
Hackaday needs a like button.
Instead of a “Like” button, we should be able to add a “Jolly Wrencher” to a post, similar to how Spiceworks uses the “Spice” to uplike a post or comment. The more “Jolly Wrenchers” a post has, the better.
We can do that on hackaday.io
The only thing missing is adding, somehow, Batman jumping from one of the buildings.
Very cool build. Clicking on the link, it was a lot thinner than I thought it would be.
But it is not thin, it is a dimensional portal.
The glass top prevents people from falling in.
B^)
The first idea I had when seeing this, was to add strip of LEDs between the buildings with an animation consisting in white and red lights scrolling along the strips, to simulate “trafic” :-) … I wonder how we could do to make them look as if they were at the bottom of the buildings. How would it look like if we put these LED strips bellow the bottom mirror ?