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    My living room magic mirror

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    • cowboysdudeC Offline
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      VERY nice :)

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        I am trying to build a mirror which is way bigger than the monitor itself, but from your picture it seems the monitor easily recognisable from the front of the mirror.

        Is it possible to make the monitor to blend with the mirror, possibly by by changing the monitor background color?

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          christhomas @mirror2onthewall
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          @mirror2onthewall I’m not sure about blend. The problem is more to do with the viewing angle of the LCD screen itself. With the old screen i’ve got, if you’re stood ‘above’ it or facing it the screen is very bright, and it’s dimentions are very obvious. However, due to how high it’s hanging on my wall, most people are actually looking ‘up’ at it, their eye level being below the centre, and it’s no where near as bad. I think also, the brightness of the screen could be adjusted downwards to make it less noticable, but then you’d have difficulty reading the text on bright days.

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            mirror2onthewall @christhomas
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            @christhomas Thanks for your reply. Didnt think of this minor issue when I first start designed it.

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              Amazing stuff @christhomas
              How did you get the virtual projector effect in the last screenshot :-) Just awesome! :-)
              Please could you post more photos of how does it look like hanging on the wall …

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                christhomas @mirror2onthewall
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                @mirror2onthewall Nor did I! :) When you’ve got a laptop with a hinged screen, you don’t think twice about changing the viewing angle, but you don’t really get chance to adjust it when it’s fixed to the wall! I think I was lucky in that respect.

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                  christhomas @saurabh76
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                  @saurabh76 Thanks! I’ll take a picture or two for you when I get home tonight.

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                    Really nice !

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                                      It’s 1.1MB, about the same size as all the others I’ve posted. Here’s a 50% smaller version…
                                      0_1511473070267_livingroom1.jpg

                                      Ooh! That one worked! Ok… resize resize resize…

                                      @saurabh76 Sorry for the delay… Above is how the mirror looks in the context of our living room, it’s a bit dark but it gives you a good impression of how unobtrusive the brightness of the screen is.

                                      Compare with our bright Christmas tree!

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                                      Close up from below…

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                                      Close up from above. You should see what I mean about how bright the screen appears when you’re looking down at it…

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                                      Thanks @Mykle1 - I might have given up trying to upload pictures! Is dimension a factor in replies? The originals were 3264x2448.

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                                        @christhomas said in My living room magic mirror:

                                        Is dimension a factor in replies? The originals were 3264x2448.

                                        The 50% smaller files worked tells me your files were too large, either by dimension or file size. I’m guessing there is a limit to what the forum will accept, and that makes perfect sense. There’s really no reason to post large capacity files that are just for viewing

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                                          saurabh76 @christhomas
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                                          @christhomas thanks a bunch for posting the images, I could see that you had to resize the images before the forum allowed you to post…thanks for your efforts in posting the images and they are really wonderful!

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                                            christhomas @Mykle1
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                                            @Mykle1 Yes, that’s weird. As far as I can recall I didn’t do anything different when I uploaded the first load of pictures for the main post. I took them on my iphone (which has not changed all year) and uploaded them via dropbox to my home laptop, and copied them into the post from there, however comparing the dimensions of them on my hard disk, maybe dropbox resized the original ones for me… I don’t remember changing any settings…

                                            @saurabh76 You’re welcome! Thanks for your interest!

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