Great post after Cylinder Mirror?Echer-Style in reverse ?

For those interested, here is a complete notebook to give it a try with your own Xmas wishes! I could not compile so, it is rather slow, be patient...

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NB for Community.nb

Very nice.

My first thought was wall art, then I wondered about how high the art would need to be to see the reflection in the reflecting ball that would need to be attached, so table art it is!

It might be fun to try something with the Chicago Cloud Gate (the bean), but the dimensions: Dimensions 10 m × 13 m × 20 m (33 ft × 42 ft × 66 ft) might not make it very feasible to print out something to place at the base of the end of the sculpture.

The idea of the Chicago bean is wonderful but we have to consider some specifics of a sphere mirror. Only one half of the sphere will reflect the anamorphic image. Either the lower half from an image on the floor below the sphere or the upper half from an image on the ceiling above the sphere.

1.If the anamorphic image is on the floor, the perceived image must be in the lower half of the sphere This could be achieved with a hanging mirror ball. The viewpoint of the observer is at V just above the floor.

2.The anamorphic is on the ceiling and then we perceive it in the upper half of the sphere This could be done by painting the anamorphic image on a ceiling above the ball The viewpoint of the observer is at V just above the floor but higher than the sphere center..

In the case of the "bean", we have here an upper half of a convex (ball like) mirror and the anamorphic image would need to be on some type of suspended ceiling above the bean mirror surface. Not on the floor.

@Erik, this is absolutely wonderful holidays idea. I was thinking one can really hide a secret message for loved ones hardly readable on paper but "magically" revealed by a Christmas Ball. What a fun computational project!