This instructable will show you how to easily make a convincing floating head hologram.
It's a great addition to your Halloween decorations!
Watch the video for the overview. (The camera can't do this illusion the justice it deserves.)
It's a great addition to your Halloween decorations!
Watch the video for the overview. (The camera can't do this illusion the justice it deserves.)
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You only need a couple of things for this illusion:
1. A piece of glass.
The size of the glass is relative to the size of the area where the illusion will be viewed.
2. A monitor (and computer, of course).
Either an LCD or CRT monitor will work. CRT monitors tend to give a better reflection, but an LCD monitor can be used in a much smaller spot.
The LCD monitor I used had a removable stand. That made it much easier to hide in the cabinet.
3. Floating head movie.
I recommend Big Scream TV.
1. A piece of glass.
The size of the glass is relative to the size of the area where the illusion will be viewed.
2. A monitor (and computer, of course).
Either an LCD or CRT monitor will work. CRT monitors tend to give a better reflection, but an LCD monitor can be used in a much smaller spot.
The LCD monitor I used had a removable stand. That made it much easier to hide in the cabinet.
3. Floating head movie.
I recommend Big Scream TV.
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thats not really a hologram thats just a way of making a projector appear as one alot of peapole don't realize it but inorder to make a proper holagram you always need mirrors inorder to cause to beams of light to collide into one another this is how u make a true hologram if you want the esiest hologram to make is a photo frame you take 2 mirros and place one on the back of the inside of a small box where the front of the box needs to be cut open that is where the hologram will apear when you put in your picture next u place a second mirror in the box i forget if it was on the top or the bottom seeing how it was a long time ago when i made one of these during my studies into creating a EMH (Eletric Magnetic Hologram) but i think it was the bottom and then u need to have a beam of light shoot into the box from a hole in the top not large one and not to small needst meet the requirements of the size of the box then all you do is turn the light on and wolla you will see the picture you placed on the bottom on the inside of the box appear where the front cut out is oh yea and make sure the cut in the front of the box is the same size as the mirros them selves or people will be able to tell it is a fake image you can email me for more further info on holograms using this sight i would be more than happy to share my knoledge and so you know in order for anny physical object to be touched it must have some form of electric magnetic energy hense the reason the call the doctor on voyager an emh because with out the em field it would not be able to interact with anny object especial organic beings due to the fact all living things produce a em field even the very earth itself has its own em field in which is what makes it habbital for living life forms.
My company wants to make this device, i.e. Pepper's Ghost, as a cool sign to our entrance.
1) We seem to have a problem with the piece of glass though.
As can be seen in the above picture there is a "double" image that we need to get rid of.
I was thinking of using either tightened, very thin Plexiglas or Museum glass (Also known as Non-reflective glass/ Anti-glare glass etc)
Obviously, if I go with the latter, the glass can only be coated on the one side, right? Has anyone tried this?
We have a fairly decent budget so cost would not really be an issue.
Any other suggestions?
Really Look forward to hearing back, and please forgive me if I am doing this wrong. I only joined today.
Try Univ. or state auctions.
visit geeknfreak.com, They have a cheap CG floating head avi with like an alien satan ext. I think it was like .25 cents under there projects section.
They were so cool, I have it set up at my house
My actions here may adversely effect my chances in the Halloween contest, but its ok. really, its ok.
That said, I'm making a very similar peppers ghost set up as part of my ultimate Halloween display instructable. I also needed a video, and to be frank, I don't think the stuff done by "Big Scream TV" is very good. It all looks fake, they're all just disembodies heads, and they're all designed for REALLY terrible dialogue.
So, in the interests of a good display for all who attempt this, Here's the video I made, based on a short clip of Disney's Haunted Mansion, taken during a walkthrough.
its only 13 seconds of ghost padded with 13 seconds of black, and the resolution is terrible, but in my display, at least, it looks AMAZING.
I call her Pepper's Bride.
Enjoy, and be sure to read my instructable when it appears, slightly after Halloween... I swear I'm gonna regret doing this later.
cool project too !!(-_-)!!
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Would love to see someone's instructable set-up of it. Here's a youtube of what someone did with it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dhTGph3SX8