Bob if you're holding it up to the mirror then you're looking at the
bottle from the back right... If the bottle was transparent what
would the text look like when seen from the back?
On 11/18/11 6:02 PM, Bob wrote:
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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