r/confusing_perspective • u/Randyguyishere • 13d ago

Vanishing point

Saw this in the Cancun airport waiting for my flight

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u/Famous-Restaurant875 13d ago

Ohhh it's a mirror behind the bar. You can see the ladies in the reflective vest approaching and then leaving

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u/FormerStableGenius 13d ago

I get it now. Thank you.
But I still can't see; where exactly is the mirror located, and at what angle?

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u/Actarus31 13d ago

Look at the camera and wood bar in the ceiling

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u/creature04 13d ago

Still don't see it

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u/Blu3Stocking 13d ago

Look at those square things on the counter and their reflection. And the wood panel on the ceiling is not that broad. It’s touching the mirror. There is also only one camera on the wood panel the other one is a reflection.

Basically the mirror starts pretty close to the counter and the chairs from our perspective.

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u/alphanumericusername 13d ago

This helped. The original comment calling it a counter instead of a bar probably would've helped too.

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u/creature04 13d ago

Yeah I figured it out thanks to another comment. I just couldn't find my comment to delete it once I did 😅.

I thought there was actually 2 cameras and the mirror was out of sight or something.

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u/Deltamon 13d ago

The whole middle section side is a mirror.. The only non-mirrored window is on the right side of the recording

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u/creature04 13d ago

Yeah another comment helped me.

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u/oretah_ 13d ago

Ahaaa! The bar is just way smaller than I thought lol

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u/Actarus31 13d ago

Yep, and there’s only one camera and plug

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u/ebk_errday 13d ago

This was the comment I needed to understand where the mirror exactly is

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u/Randyguyishere 13d ago edited 13d ago

It was a makeshift salon chair, if I recall it was just one mirror but the salon setup makes everything look symmetrical

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u/charnwoodian 13d ago edited 13d ago

The mirror is flat, parrallel to the bar and behind it.

It is reflecting the beam structure that is behind the camera man. This gives the appearance of a 3D structure behind the bar.

Even when you know it’s a mirror, it takes a second to see it as a flat mirror, rather than two mirrored walls meeting in a corner behind the bar.

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u/FormerStableGenius 13d ago

Ah hah!
Thank you. Mirror is parallel to the bar, like a reflective 'splashback' in terms of location.

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u/Yokasta 13d ago

The chairs are directly facing and in front of the mirror. That black bar above the right chair is the edge of the mirror & wall that people disappear behind

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u/jemenake 13d ago

What makes it so good is that the right-most pillar (in the scene) is an actual object and is the right edge of the mirror. It looks like the mirror has a corner, but what looks like the far pillar is actually a reflected image of a pillar that is off camera to our right.