Last Friday Shai demonstrated a very interesting illusion, using these pills called Miracle Fruit. They bond to taste receptors on the tongue. When acidic foods, such as lemons or even sour pickles, are eaten, it induces the taste of sweet rather than sour, making sour foods taste sweet. I personally ate lemons, grapefruit, and blood orange. The lemons in particular tasted very sweet, in my opinion.

My project is to create an infinity mirror. An infinity mirror works by bouncing the light from the LEDs back and forth repeatedly, which eventually seem to fade the further away you look. This creation of many rows and columns of LED lights creates the illusion of depth, so it looks like a tunnel or tube that goes on forever.

The next iteration for my project is to create an infinity cube, a 3 dimmensional mirror that can be seen go on forever from multiple angles. I have laser cut pieces that are constructed into a cube, and I am now adding LED strips onto the inside of the pieces. A snag that I have hit is that it is not possible to use one full LED strip that will cover the entirety of the wooden supports. Therefore, Oliver and I have decided to add wires that will extend underneath the LED strips, so that the three wooden supports that cannot be easily reached will be connected into the entire long strip. Also, the LED strip was not able to go around the weird angles that the triangle corners create, so I soldered small pieces of wire at the correct angles to have them fit together perfectly.

Due to time constraints, I was unable to finish the box with LED strips going on every interior edge of the cube. I did put 4 strips of LEDs on 4 edges, so that I could have 2 effects. One is a solid colour of blue, and the other is the periodic turning on and off of the LEDs, which simulates movement.