All Exhibits
Giant Kaleidoscope
Step into the kaleidoscope to see infinite reflections of yourself.
Do any of the reflections look odd? What happens if you wave with your right hand?
Is there a pattern to the rotations and reflections?
The first mirror creates a reflection, the second mirror creates reflections-of-reflection, and the third mirror creates infinitely many reflections. When the mirrors are placed at 60˚ they create hexagonal patterns.
We are used to seeing ourselves reflected in a mirror, but some of your reflections here may look strange. That’s because half of the images are reflections, and half of the images are reflections-of-reflections, which create a rotation.
The set of infinite reflections will look like this:
