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[Tenacious-V]

Each 8 servo motors are connected to a serial servo controller which is a small circuit that takes serial commands and controls the motors. There are 108 such controllers in the mirror. Each 11 controllers share a serial communication line to the computer. There are 10 serial communication lines going to the computer, the two built in ports plus 8 more on an add-on board. Also connected to the controllers are 4 power supplies supplying 100 amps of electricity for the motors. In the center of the Mirror a tiny video camera is concealed. It sends the viewer's picture to the computer via the AV port. The software on the computer (Macintosh 8600 AV ) is a combination of custom software written in C and Macromedia Director. The software digitizes the video and reduces its size to 35 X 29 pixels . It then converts the color information into gray levels and adjusts the brightness of each pixel to compensate for the various shades of the wood pieces.

Here's a video of it doing its stuff.

I guess it's been around for a while, but damn, that's cool.

 

[demi]

That looks like something taken straight out of the books of Myst!

 

[Manabanana]

Wow, that's cool. I was really confused at first, but when they zoomed in, it made sense.

 

[Particle Physicist]

thats pretty damn cool .

 

[android]

Wow. That's like something Da Vinci would create.

 

[Guzim]

That is awesome.

 

[Justin85]

Wow, I pass the floor that that thing's on a couple times a day. I guess I'm going to have to stop next time.

 

[MaverickX9]

That is pretty cool.

I thought it was going to be a highly polished piece of wood that gave off a reflection.

I have one of those in my pants.

Ha...hoo...heh.