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Convex Lens Imaging

The camera obscura inspired me of this idea, Light projection constructed an immersive interior. what about light reflection and how it could affect visual perception.

When I drank water on my balcony, I found that the city landscape turned into an inverted scene on the surface through the glass...

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How about moving the objects close to the glass...

How about moving the objects close to the glass...

How about moving the objects close to the glass...

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The images reflected on the glass got twisted and magnified....

What would happen if using different shapes of the glass...

What would happen if using different shapes of the glass...

What would happen if using different shapes of the glass...

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I filled a cylindrical glass with water, but the image didn't change surprisingly until I moved the glass away from the object, and its reflection in the cup was flipped...

Immersed in Convex Lens? Magnifying glass?

Immersed in Convex Lens? Magnifying glass?

Immersed in Convex Lens? Magnifying glass?

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Through the imaging of the magnifying glass, the reflection of distant objects on the glass becomes an upside-down scene. From the opposite side of the magnifying glass, you can find that there are two scenes turned upside down...

as body-wide landing-site dispersal registers the body's immersion within a volume held in place by certain demarcations, recording particulars about boundaries, a person will feel surrounded first according to one description of the world, then another...

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