Is there such a thing as Mirrors without reflections? I can think of a method that might work, but not sure it would.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks, and I hope this was the right place to post the topic.

What are you looking for? It's like the old joke, what do you call a boomerang which doesn't return. The answer is a stick.

What do you call a mirror that doesn't reflect. A window? A wall?

Just watch a horror movie called House The Guilty cannot hide, and in the movie there is this very interesting dark room with red furniture and a mirror on the wall that these characters discover has no reflection.

So, I thought it was interesting that there might be an actual mirror out there without reflections.

Does a tree that falls in the forrest make a sound? Is a mirror without a reflection a mirror?

Jim

Don't know exactly what you're looking for, but your question reminded me of this video:

http://quirkology.com/USA/Video_MirrorTrick.shtml

-Brad

I can think of three rough methods for creating the illusion of a mirror that does not reflect the viewer for a single room.

First, create an exact reversed duplicate of the viewing room on the other side of a thin faux wall. Build a clear no-glare window in the wall framed to look like a mirror. The viewer sees an exact mirror-reverse image of the room he's in that shifts freely with his perspective - without his image showing. The added benefit would be having ghostly actors enter the mirror room leaving the viewing room weirdly empty.

Have a glass smith lightly etch an invisible ghostly face into the backside of the window. Place a remote mister at the back top of the window and a bright clouded pin light at the back base. Remotely activating the mister and pin light will create a fogging affect similar to breathing on your glasses to clean them. The fog and shadow lighting will cause the ghostly etched face to appear and stare back at the viewer.

The second would be a set of 3-5 high detail photos of the room taken from slightly different angles out from the wall on which the mirror will hang. Process the photos into a single fine glossy 3-D image similar to the ghost paintings that change from ancestor to ghost as your perspective changes. The 3-D process allows the room to shift slightly according to the viewers perspective somewhat like a mirror - but without a reflection of the viewer.

Third, as Brad suggested, employ a flat screen television screen framed to look like a mirror. Replay video of the room taken from the wall perspective earlier.

Just a few creative and very rough thoughts to ponder.

Thanks Skip, this is pretty much what I was looking for. I like the 3-D idea the best.

One thing I hate is non-glare glass, so this option is out the window.

Thanks for helping out,
Keith

I think Jerry Andrus had a mirror like this maybe with Vampire in the title. I know I he has something but sorry can not recall for sure.

They did an old Candid Camera spot with the duplicate room behind the glass in a powder room with matching items on the counters and everything. They even had twins walking through the shot on both sides. The look on the people's faces when they couldn't see their own reflection was very funny!