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The wooden mirror is actually a very large-scale display,
a computer display.
In the centre of the wooden mirror -
actually in the physical centre of the wooden mirror -
is a tiny video camera.
That video camera is capturing the image
of whoever or whatever stands in front of the mirror.
That video signal is then sent to a computer,
which analyses and captures that video signal.
That image is then evaluated in grey scale,
in black and white values,
where each black and white value actually corresponds to an angle
of one of these wooden pixels - 835 in all.
So once the computer has done that,
it communicates with many server controllers
serial-server controllers,
sending them commands to move the motors, as needed.
The system is quite fast
so it refreshes itself probably 15 or 20 times a second.
So it, sort of, yields a smooth animation and is a by-product.
Most of the motors are moving when you move in front of it.
So there's a sort of a nice hushing sound coming out of it
when you interact with it.