Home-made 42min documentary about "Kozyrev mirror".
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You could try that foam EVA mats. They are cheaper than bamboo mats and good in keeping form. Also they have smooth surface so your sticky mirror will be smooth too on it.
Also, take a look at insulation materials like foamed PE. Should be extramely cheap in any Home Depot or how you call shops and supermarkets dedicated to selling building materials and tools.
yeah that damn bamboo wouldn't be good sticking it right on there. Would telegraph through. Looking up foam EVA mats. I see what you're talking about. That's the main thing too, keeping the idea as inexpensive as possible. It's gonna be a while till I stabilize the situation and can get around to it. Was scrolling down youtube and nobody's making these. That's because they think it has to be stainless steel.
Check also this foam polyethilene house insulation, like https://tk-sp.ru/image/cache/catalog/category/stroimaterialy/izoliatciia/teploizoliatciia/vspenennyi-polietilen/penofol/296415715-vspenennyj-polietilen-penofol-folgirovannyj-samokleyuschijsya-5mm-0-6h30m-18m2-sn-700x700.jpg - it should be everywhere and it is cheap as dirt. It produced with thicknesses from 2 to 20mm.
Original was from aluminium, not from stainless steel.
That foam polyethilene house insulation looks good.
I was looking back to when I had this gold mirror box setup with 10ft tripods with horizontal bars. 4 sets. They were only like 60 bucks each.
When I was looking around if anybody was making this Kozyrev setup, saw people would hang it from the ceiling and have a wire shape of it. Then you just clamp the tarps on that. Have one at the bottom too. Then you don't need a rigid backing. I'd use 2 sets of the tripods bars to get a + and hang the stuff from there.
I also saw somebody use two way mirror with a normal mirror, with an LED strip in between. You could look into it. Looked for that type of two way flexible mirror roll, and they have it on amazon too. Could run a test of that.. but with the Koyrev shape you can't really use that when it swirls inside itself. But you could use it on the outer area, this way you could look in, to see if odd stuff is going on. Has to be brighter than the outside. If you have it on house windows, when it's dark, they can see in. So it'd be another material to test out.
I also want to test having it horizontal and sleep in there.. so I'd need a rigid backing. The foam insulation would be great for that cause you're lying down inside the thing.
Nice solution. But again, I'm not sure that thickness and material of the walls does not matter. You could get a nice decoration without described effects. However, there is the only way to find out.
I installed one such thing as a top of coffee table. Funny to watch how guests meet with severe difficulties in putting a cup or phone on it. :)