What Does It Look Like INSIDE a Spherical Mirror?

Summary by Krater

The host explores the optical physics of being inside a spherical mirror using a laparoscope camera, examining light reflections, multiple images, and visual illusions created by enclosing the camera in hemispheres.

From the video

Answers: What does it look like inside a spherical mirror?

• spherical mirror reflection optics
• laparoscope camera inside sphere
• light absorption and reflection in hemispherical mirrors
• optical illusions inside mirrors

What it concludes

• The center of a hemispherical mirror appears brightest because those rays undergo only one reflection.
• Rays undergoing multiple reflections lose light to absorption, making the outer edges darker until light is completely extinguished.
• Filling a hemispherical mirror 70 to 80 percent full of water creates a floating spherical glass ball illusion.
• Closing hemispheres around a camera creates the optical illusion of the camera reflection going into itself, moving away, and returning to touch itself.