Turning it wouldn't help
since the image will still be reversed no matter how many
degrees it is turned. It would have to be printed in reverse
Bob
Money can't
buy happiness--- But somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a
Porsche than a Kia.
On 11/18/2011 7:00 PM, Herschel Mair wrote:
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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