#pepper's ghost

[postpunkindustrial]

Joshua Ellingson is an audio/visual artist who specializes in installations with a certain retro appeal.

This tickled my fancy

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[charnel-grounds]

Professor Pepper (John Henry) - The True History of the Ghost; and All About Metempsychosis. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1890

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[nemfrog]

Strategically placed mirrors give the illusion that viewers can see into the skeleton of the man in the coffin to the right.

American Educator and Library of Knowledge. 1902. Internet Archive.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

This is a pseudo-hologram obtained using the so-called Pepper's ghost technique.

“Pepper’s Ghost” is a simple optical effect that has been in use since the late 1800s and you can even try it yourself at home.

📹: Joshua Ellingson

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Pepper's Ghost is an optical illusion technique used in theater and visual effects to create ghostly apparitions.

It involves reflecting an image of a person or object off a transparent surface, such as glass or acrylic, to make it appear as if it's in the same space as live performers or real objects.

This illusion is achieved through careful lighting and positioning of the reflective surface, creating a seamless integration of the reflected image with the physical environment.

(Credit: cybertrove via X)

[douglasbradburyverne]

THE HAUNTED MANSION opened at Disneyland 55 years ago today

[christinaplaysneopets]

I made a Pepper's Ghost Illusion to make the Fyora's Hologram item from Neopets for the Fyora Day art gallery. File size limits will destroy any legibility of this, so I will probably be forced to just do the base animation. rip in pieces talking about rn

igotta go to bed

idk what i'm

[thoughtportal]

Pepper's ghost 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost

[heaveninawildflower]

'The True History of Pepper's Ghost' by John Henry Pepper.

Published 1890 by Cassell & Company.

Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

archive.org