Magic Mirrors is a video installation requiring audience participation to create 
large projections of human forms bending, twisting, and flying through space. This celibratory work could be described as a ìvideo fun house,î where visitors view 
large projections of their own images transformed in extraordinary ways using 
real-time digital video processing techniques.

Everyone, especially children, are fascinated by watching their own video image. 
This work is ideally designed for a crowd of people coming and going since it engages 
a large audience in two ways. Audience members who participate in creating the 
projection move and interact together socially to produce a composite image. The 
large screen insures that audience members who do not participate directly can 
enjoy the spectacle of watching those who do participate, even from a great distance
or in passing.

Software for this project uses a programming language called Max, with additional 
video processing extensions using the software package, NATO. A standard video 
camera is used to send images to the video input of an Apple G4 computer. There, 
software transforms the image in real time using custom-designed video processing algorithms. The altered image is then projected onto a large 12 x 18 foot screen.