That why when you look on the front of some vehicles you see what looks like gibberish, but if you looked at it in the rear view mirror of your car it reads ambulance. Translation get out of the way. We are either headed to the hospital or the doughnut shop to meet the cops. Either way you don't want to be in front of them.
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Subject: Re: What's with mirrors?
From: Bob <w8imo@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, November 18, 2011 7:02 pm
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
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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.
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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?RoyIn 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.
