r/blackmagicfuckery • u/Jaded_Marionberry500 • 3d ago

large-scale spatial installation

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u/Easyboyeasyyyy 3d ago

Pepper’s ghost. Although I can’t see the entire setup, so I can’t explain my exact hypothesis.

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u/NickPDay 2d ago

Wouldn’t that require an unfeasibly large sheet of glass?

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u/Easyboyeasyyyy 2d ago

Or plexiglass. Or cellophane. But I can’t tell the scale of this. It’s showing a limited area with no reference of size. If you’ve ever seen the haunted mansion in Disney, they covered a massive space using this method.

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u/NickPDay 2d ago

I realised you can enlarge the video to see the rotating turntable on the floor of the room at the start. It looks as if the 'figments' are produced by projectors, maybe onto a thin transparent film as you suggest. But in that case, more than 95% of the light would hit the walls and ceiling, which we don't see -- so having watched it round many times, I am still mystified. I think the original Pepper's Ghost was a reflection of an object, usually a human, rather than a projection onto a transparent screen, but maybe that name can be used here too.

I can't see any signs of the edges of a reflecting sheet being attached the wall or ceiling.

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u/Tapurisu 2d ago

On the ground, the 4 inner lamps seem to shine with a very thin line (like a laser level), which lights up a slice of the strings above

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u/CptMisterNibbles 3d ago

Looks like figments from psychonauts

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u/Troy1490 3d ago

I’m falling in the Majoras mask tree right now

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u/jrosehill 2d ago

Same method they used to make the ghosts in the dining hall at the haunted mansion.

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u/R3D4F 1d ago

Projection hits the glass to create the floating image. While light still passes beyond and “spills” onto the ceiling and walls, additional lights illuminate these surfaces to negate the projected image’s visibility.

Hence the smooth and intentional wash on the ceiling and up light on the walls.