The idea behind this is very simple. The mirror will not be a real mirror, but either an LCD monitor or a back projection with a tiny concealed camera mounted on top of it. I would put a frame around it, and maybe add a piece of plexiglass in front of the screen to make it look like a mirror.

When a person passes in front of the camera, a vector field will be generated based on his/her motion, which will then be used to warp the image in the mirror. When the application starts, the image will be Louie freaking out inside the mirror, but as people pass in front of it, what the camera sees will gradually replace him on screen.

There once was a man named Louie who lived in Cobble Hill and worked at the ticket booth of the New York Transit Museum. He seemed like an ordinary Joe Six-Pack, but he was actually one of the most neurotic people out there. Louie always worried about people talking about him behind his back, and this would unfortunately lead to very embarrassing situations causing people to talk about him behind his back. For example, he would often sneak up on people quietly whispering to each other at the museum and try to spy on their conversations. Louie was obviously not trained in stealth operations and would always be discovered, at which point he would panic and scream obscenities at the museum’s patrons before running away and hiding under the desk of his ticket booth.
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