Context

When we were ideating the project, we wanted to do something that makes everyday things or things that we take for granted act in surprising ways. We’ve been interested in mirrors since they can create so many effects like the infinite mirror, distorted images, colorization, etc.. We then were inspired by the computer vision project on Gates 9th floor where the camera feed is transformed/styled by a painting (see image). We thought this was really cool because it’s almost like looking at a different side of you (in painting style). To apply this idea of our mirror, we thought about adding filters so that when the user is close to the mirror, it suddenly changes what you look like in order to create the feeling of surprise and maybe unsettle.