MattJ812

I wasn't really thinking about looking into a mirror is like looking into another universe, light reflects off of almost everything. It's more to do with the thinking of co-existence if that makes sense. If the images relfected did physically exist they would exist in the same space. I only think about this because of theories of multiple universes or as I read not too long ago, time travel and changes made could create a new path of time that exists parallel to the original. Its just a weird thing to think about and was wondering how retarded it is, probably very. I hadn't tested using two mirrors as I was thinking that each room would be unique.

My original thought was to take a snapshot of "what the mirror sees". I figured I could use the distance from the mirror, the angle to the plane of the mirror, and the mirrors (EDIT - I actually typed windows here, that to me is kinda funny) size to determine its field of view. From that I could calculate what parts of my scene would be visible in the mirror. I stumbled on the actual projection of a 3d scene onto a 2d image, which led me to just recreating everything for a simple illusion, it would be totally expensive to do this for an intricate scene or for multiple mirrors. Besides the actual game implementation of this, my question was actually kinda leaning towards the physical/dimensional properties of whats going on. More to real life multi-dimensional universes, multiverses whatever you call it, the concept of having anything to do with a mirror is just silly but it did get me thinking about light. The reason I asked this question at all is as follows (ignore me if its just plain stupid) I take room A and place a mirror on a wall, recreate that room and call it room B, place a mirror on a wall perpendicular to the first. Then recreate the room again room C. Looking into room C at the right angle will show the mirror that looks into room B, so Ill create a 4th room but is it D or B? or both....I would have multiple copies of the same thing in the same place. Stupid to try to applicate but too much to comprehend as far as what it would look like and I lost it. This is probably extremely retarded but some things just get me to thinking. Here's a diagram of what I was thinking just incase anyone is still paying any attention. Maybe I would have to think about another dimension?

I didn't know where to ask this kinda stuff, its not just ignorant are mirrors are portals etc I just got curious about something and was hoping for some opinions on it. So basically I am working on 3D games and I wanted an illusion of a mirror, so what I did was recreate everything but "mirrored" on the axis in question, which worked. But then I thought how about 2 mirrors, Now the image in the 2nd mirror must contain the image in the 1st mirror. I am creating instances in space to create this illusion and obvously only one thing can exists in the same place at one time and it got me thinking. I know mirrors just reflect light, although they are still intriguing, the way I I decided to accomplish my first step suddenly hit me that the image in the mirror is the same world I am in (Ignorantly draw it backwards) but I cannot keep recreating the same space in the same space? I googled a bunch about other dimensions and dimensional space... I dunno I was just wondering about the concept of other dimensions and how light reflects and didn't know where to go to learn more.