A few loose thoughts about this, just to get my ideas clear.

On 18-9-2013 12:41, Stephen wrote:
> There is more to it than that, Christian.
> Imagine a simple box materialising. Do we want to see the hidden faces as it
> goes from transparent to opaque?

No. It would be the /shape/ of the box, the outline if you want, 
becoming transparent.

> With a model of a police box all the internal
> and hidden detail would show.

It shouldn't. While becoming transparent the inside remains hidden from 
our eyes.

> If a person went from invisible to translucent to
> visible, would you see their body under their clothes and what about all the
> internal organs?

Again, invisible to the onlooker. Only the outward shape of the person 
is involved.

> Now with a Tardis how do we see that the inside is larger than the outside?

An interesting challenge would be to show both (open doors). I did 
something similar a very long time ago (>10 years) with a door to 
another dimension. I cheated somewhat: The door opened into space 
(galaxy.inc) and was made of a vertical plane mirror (reflecting space) 
with a differenced door. Behind the door was a landscape cut off by the 
vertical plane. I must have the code somewhere...

Thomas

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