(ORDO NEWS) — London company Stufish laid out a spectacularly trippy experience for visitors to this year’s One Giant Leap technology conference in Saudi Arabia, in which visitors could walk through a colossal kaleidoscope tunnel, surrounded by wild LED visuals.
The 40-m (131-ft) tunnel measured 6 m (19.7 ft) tall and 3 m (9.8 ft) wide, although its clever use of seamless, warpless mirrors makes the space look cylindrical as huge LED panels under the floor and in the wall tiles push out a series of slowly expanding, wildly psychedelic geometric designs, interspersed with visuals from a range of different environments “from the bottom of the sea to the sky and stars.”
Its size doesn’t win it the “world‘s largest kaleidoscope” title outright – a converted silo in New York State has a larger diameter, and another exhibition piece built for the 2005 Aichi Expo in Japan featured a tube 47 m (154 ft) long. Both of these, however, were vertically oriented. The Stufish design is the biggest kaleidoscope ever built for people to actually walk through.
Stufish says designing a 40-m-long mirror without any seams or warping wasn’t the only challenge – to maintain the illusion of infinite space, the team had to design triangular entry and exit portals at either end that wouldn’t disrupt the reflections.
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