Where can one buy mirrored spheres?
Dube juggling equipment offers hollow mirrored spheres in several sizes between 2 and 3 inches in diameter. They’re light and shinier, but sometimes not perfectly spherical. Some of our research has made use of ball bearings from: King Bearing, Inc., a subsidiary of Applied Industrial Technologies Has many locations nationally, check www.superpages.com for one near you. You may also find ball bearings in the McMaster-Carr catalog. The shiniest seem to be the 2-inch chrome balls, which are less than $20 each. This is the type used for Fiat Lux and for most of the Image-Based Lighting paper. For Rendering with Natural Light and the Grace Cathedral Light Probes, we used a 3-inch ball. Large Gazing Balls, made of glass and plated on the inside with a mirror-like material, can be ordered from Baker’s Lawn Ornaments. They are available in 6, 10, and 12-inch diameters. They are not optically perfect, as their surfaces are somewhat rippled and the front surface of the glass will produce a fain
