I was visiting a museum today. One of the exhibits featured a circular projection against the wall.<\/p>\n
To be clear the projector they used was a perfectly ordinary projector which protects a rectangular image. But a mask was installed near the lens, blocking out all light outside of a soft-edged disk shaped region.<\/p>\n
The result is surprising effective. The region within registered not so much as a projection, but as a magical round window into another world.<\/p>\n
I am delighted that a technique which is so simple can produce something that is so effective. Somehow this makes me very happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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