Nope you'd have to turn the bottle to read it the right way.... If
the bottle is facing the mirror then the text starts on your right
and ends on your left.
h
On 11/18/11 4:11 PM, PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx wrote:
Ok so a person turning around changes the image axis as
your right and left reverse. When I first read the OB
comment I went to a mirror then I raised my right hand to my
right ear and it was still on the right side in the mirror
image but holding a bottle of Listerine up produced the
words backward. I'm looking straight into the mirror so my
axis of perception has not changed. Why do the word on the
Listerine show up backwards?
Roy
In a message dated 11/18/2011 4:35:43 P.M. Eastern
Standard Time, eichhorn@xxxxxx writes:
Mirror image
If one looks in a
mirror, one's image reverses (e.g., if one raises one's
right hand, his left hand will appear to go up in the
mirror). However, a mirror does not "swap" left and
right, any more than it swaps top and bottom. A mirror
reverses the forward/backward axis, and we define left
and right relative to front and back. Flipping
front/back and left/right is equivalent to a rotation of
180 degrees about the vertical axis (in the same way
that text which is back-to-front andupside-down
simply looks like it has been rotated 180 degrees on the
page). Therefore, looking at an image of oneself with
the front/back axis flipped is the same as looking at an
image with the left/right axis flipped and the whole
figure rotated 180 degrees about the vertical axis,
which is exactly what one sees when standing in front of
a mirror.
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