Can I get one for Astarion?
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Nah, doesn't have to be. Just try putting a mirror very close to your eye, but angled sideways. You will be able to focus onto anything you want without issue. Because you aren't focussing at the mirror, but at the thing you look at.
alright fair enough
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I'm nothing if not dangerously committed to incredibly bad science
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This belongs in What We Do In The Shadows.
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I'll keep this in mind if I ever become a vampire.
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Surely, they must take in fluids besides blood, right? Otherwise they'd shrivel up!
Blood is mostly water.
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Pretty sure they just poured silver nitrate over glass. You can still buy kits to do that to re-silver old mirrors for the original look. From what I can find, the layered ones were older, and they used tin and mercury which made breaking a mirror a rather unlucky event.
Huh, so 7 years bad luck was actually just heavy metal poisoning? Fascinating...
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Pretty sure they just poured silver nitrate over glass. You can still buy kits to do that to re-silver old mirrors for the original look. From what I can find, the layered ones were older, and they used tin and mercury which made breaking a mirror a rather unlucky event.
I'm sure there are varying methods, but typically you silver the back of glass to make a mirror
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Vampires also have ultra instance senses, so they don't need to look.behind them
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Vampires also have ultra instance senses, so they don't need to look.behind them
Something a vampire-hunter might say
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Idk about vampire lore but if they are invisible in mirror it means light passes through them undisturbed and therefore they shouldn't cast a shadow. But with the same logic they would be invisible altogether so it being exclusive to mirrors is a wild thing...
I always thought the lore was that they could not see themselves in a mirror and that was misinterpreted as they did not have a reflection. First one could just be a mental block or they just don't recognize their reflections as themselves.
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I always thought the lore was that they could not see themselves in a mirror and that was misinterpreted as they did not have a reflection. First one could just be a mental block or they just don't recognize their reflections as themselves.
yeah that would really make much more sense than the other one
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Most use aluminium nowadays afaik.
I'm not certain, can't find any reliable info on this.
Shops don't seem to specify the reflective material. In addition, aluminium is commonly used to describe the frame, and silver as a color for the frame or other parts, making it hard to get any info on the sales side.On the production-tech side, I see some pages talk only about silver, others mention both silver and aluminium. Silver commonly has a description of the chemical process at times (silver nitrate silvering), haven't seen one for aluminium yet.
Price wise, metal should be fully opaque around 10nm. Assuming a generous 100nm thickness, that makes 0.1€/m² worth of silver. I doubt material cost is a factor.
Performance wise, silver seems better than aluminium in its reflectance. Honestly I don't get why anyone would be making aluminium mirrors.
Does anyone have more info on this?
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I'm sure there are varying methods, but typically you silver the back of glass to make a mirror
I think you are right. I keep finding different ways they did it, so sounds like the 1800s was a busy period in the development of mirror technology!
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Surely, they must take in fluids besides blood, right? Otherwise they'd shrivel up!
Actually when irl blood feeders (such as vampire bats) feed, they need to constantly keep pissing while sucking blood, so as not to burst from the volume of liquid they're feeding off of.
Because blood is relatively nutrition poor. Just mostly water with an irony taste. (Uh.. I wouldn't know personally ofc. Uhm, a friend told me. A human friend, as all we humans have.)
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I'm not certain, can't find any reliable info on this.
Shops don't seem to specify the reflective material. In addition, aluminium is commonly used to describe the frame, and silver as a color for the frame or other parts, making it hard to get any info on the sales side.On the production-tech side, I see some pages talk only about silver, others mention both silver and aluminium. Silver commonly has a description of the chemical process at times (silver nitrate silvering), haven't seen one for aluminium yet.
Price wise, metal should be fully opaque around 10nm. Assuming a generous 100nm thickness, that makes 0.1€/m² worth of silver. I doubt material cost is a factor.
Performance wise, silver seems better than aluminium in its reflectance. Honestly I don't get why anyone would be making aluminium mirrors.
Does anyone have more info on this?
This is the most thorough answer I managed to find so far. They do mention silver being more valuable, but seems like the application process might be more expensive also.
The only source I could find on commonality is this paywalled market report claiming "The market is segmented by application (home and commercial) and type (aluminized and silvered glass mirrors), with silvered glass mirrors currently holding a larger market share due to their superior reflectivity and clarity." Not sure whether greater market share necessarily means more individual mirrors produced though. But sounds like silver still reigns supreme despite higher costs, though not sure by how much.
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Would this work? I think the light stops at the mirror because it's silver.
Normally
- Light hits the vampire.
- It bounces off their body.
- It hits the mirror
- It reflects from the mirror into your eyes.
Silver mirror
- Light hits the vampire.
- It bounces off their body (now unholy light)
- It hits the mirror and gets absorbed
- Light doesn't make it to your eyes
So, technically, there really should be a vampire-shaped hole in the mirror where the vampire was.
I always thought it was a quantum effect: light is passing through the vampire and bouncing on it at the same time and it's only when you observe its predicted path that you'll project it in a defined state.
But, from your point of view, light "knew" from the beginning that it had to pass through the vampire or bounce on it.
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Can someone please put a vampire in a Michelson interferometer and see what happens?
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I always thought it was a quantum effect: light is passing through the vampire and bouncing on it at the same time and it's only when you observe its predicted path that you'll project it in a defined state.
But, from your point of view, light "knew" from the beginning that it had to pass through the vampire or bounce on it.
I don't think the light "knew" from the beginning. The light started in a state of superposition, right? Both unholy and holy. Once it hits the vampire, only the unholy light is reflected, acting like a sort of filter similar to a polarizing lens.
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I always heard it was about not having a soul.
Good myths have multiple ramifications
