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          After all of the above was settled, I was still a bit perplexed as to how I would project onto the top and bottom of the cube.  Had I enough space, it wouldn’t be so much of a problem because I could simply have a projector suspended above the cube pointing down (for the top projection) and a projector below the cube pointing up (for the bottom projection).  Unfortunately, I highly doubted I would find anywhere with enough room to set up this model. 
            Therefore, I did some experiments with mirrors and the projectors.  I figured that if I could bounce the light off of a mirror, I could produce a larger image with a limited amount of space.  Instead of having the projector face the cube, I could face the projector away from the cube pointing instead at the mirror a few feet away.  The mirror would reflect the light and give me a few extra feet for the image to grow.  Unfortunately, this was not the case.  It turned out that, because of the size of the mirrors (12x12”), they had to be so close to the projector that the resulting image was not any bigger than just projecting straight onto the cube.
            Originally, I built a 10x10x10’ cube, but because of the mirrors not working as expected, I reduced the size of the cube to 3x3x3’.  Instead of the user’s entire body being inside the cube, it would just be the user’s head that was inside the (now suspended) cube.  This would create some physical restrictive movements as the user would not be able to stretch his or her arms up in the air, but while that would be something I would do, I didn’t think the majority of other people would think to do this, so the restriction would only really be an issue to people who thought to do that.  On top of that, I appreciated the restriction in that it fit with my idea of the absurdity and ridiculousness of the whole idea.  This also removed the question of whether or not I could/would project onto the bottom of the cube.  Because the user would now be inside the cube by sticking their head through the bottom, projecting onto the bottom was no longer a viable possibility.  I could potentially still do it by reflecting a projection (which again would not really work), but even then the person’s body would create unwanted shadows and obscure the image being projected.

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