A Galaxy in Your Hand! Infinity Mirror Box

Intro: A Galaxy in Your Hand! Infinity Mirror Box

This tutorial is about making a little shape that creates a lot of reflections inside. With holes on every angle for light and a little window to see through, you can watch this infinity proces in your hand! The idea came from watching infinity mirror video's and trying to think of any variation on them. Hope you like it! :)

STEP 1: Make or Order the 3mm Lasercut Acrylic Mirror Parts

i made a vector drawing and made an order online to lasercut these shapes from 3mm acrylic sheet mirror. Once received, we can start! :)

STEP 2: Make a Simple Paper Strip With Double Sided Tape to Construct the Infinity Polygon Shape

the assembling is pretty easy this way. I made a 2cm strip of thick paper and scored this strip. A path of 2mm wide needed to be scored in the middle. apply double sided tape on the other side and make the folds.

STEP 3: Assembling Time!

cut the paper strip to lengths of the pentagon side and work your way trough. Keep the 3 with the viewing hole side for last. It’s fun to see the reflections increasing with every element you assemble :)

Once the job is done, look inside and enjoy!

Comments

[judas79]

A human size meditation room like this, would be awesome. Very cool.

[PhillipS7]

Already looking at how to do it cost effective. First oroposal was $120,000

[JoopB1]

wow!! that would be mind bending! you know the infinity room of Yayoi Kosama? you would love it! :)

[FullOArts]

Should the thickness be 1/8 or 1/16th of an inch?

[craftyv]

How many mirror pieces please?

[JoopB1]

template is in the project! with the correct amount of pieces :)

[CoGuraQuien]

I was wondering where you ordered the acrylic mirrors and got them cut?

[XTL]

Ponoko has mirror acrylic in silver, bronze, or gold (depending on your location)
- https://www.ponoko.com/make-and-sell/materials/ponoko-united-states

[JoopB1]

Hi, i got the job done at a dutch online laser cutting service over here: www.snijlab.nl

[jeanniel1]

I love how you did this in 3 easy steps! Thanks for sharing - and be sure that the mirrored acrylic are not laminated mirrored surfaces - as I've found even with lasercutting the mirrored laminate peels off. Best to get a high quality mirrored acrylic.

[JoopB1]

thank you for your comment! :) I haven’t experienced the peeling off yet, but i can imagine that more 'budget friendly’ type of mirrors wouldn’t really appreciate the heat from the laser. Thanks for the tip!

[herojig]

What an interesting instructable! The first thing I though of was a paper I read in school - amazing easy to google up: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/BF03205804.pdf. I was also wondering if what I was looking at could be defined by math, and what would that look like. Is it an optical illusion, or are we looking at part of the reality code, aka Klee Irwin and the folks over at Quantum Gravity Research. Just a thought :)

[JoopB1]

oh my god, you go deeeeeeep into theory behind this visual proces. I never dived in to this, more a practical trial and error kind a person but thank you for the links! :)

[AshishT62]

Beautiful !!!
I always wanted to make something like this. The mirrors you used are First Surface Mirrors right?

[JoopB1]

nice to hear that you want to make one! I used 3mm thick acrylic mirror, not first surface mirrors although the effect would be extra amazing in that case! I noticed that with the acrylic, the bigger you make the pentagons, the better the visual experience will be :)

[Salamyman]

I like it! It's like a legal drug. Drink a beer and look through this - it'll have the desired effect.

[JoopB1]

hihi i got lost in the visual effect quite some times :D

[CarlJ50]

Wow, fantastic project, thank you for the time you took to document and share it. The Eye of Providence was a nice touch in the video.

[JoopB1]

Haha! Amazing! i didn’t even realised it! :P Thank you!

[Gadisha]

Wow, cool, very nice effect!
Not very hard to make either once you have the mirror parts.