Sunday, May 1, 2016

Playing with light: "Hologram" (Pepper's Ghost) projector


There's a neat trick you can do with angled plastic to give the impression of an image floating in space. While this is technically a "Pepper's Ghost" illusion, it commonly goes online by the name "Pyramid Hologram." For our friends at Iguanatron, we put together a top-down projector implementation with a 20" computer monitor.

So here's how it went down.