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English: Diagram illustrating why mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down. A viewer (V) is observing an object both directly (A) and its image (I) reflected in a mirror (M). The mirror itself does not reverse left and right or up and down, it reverses back to front. The mirror image of an object faces the opposite direction to the original object. In order to view the front side of the statue in the mirror the viewer must rotate the statue (A) so it faces the mirror as shown at (B). The object is rotated about a vertical axis, and this is the cause of the left - right reversal observed in the image. In the statue A observed directly, the cat is raising its right paw, while in the image I it is raising its left paw. |
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| Author | Chetvorno | |||
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| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
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| current | 03:45, 9 May 2017 | | 855 × 494 (157 KB) | Chetvorno | Replaced invalid Inkscape SVG version with "plain SVG" version which passes validation |
| 03:42, 9 May 2017 |  | 855 × 494 (157 KB) | Chetvorno | Replaced invalid Inkscape SVG with "plain SVG" version which passes validation | |
| 03:02, 5 January 2017 |  | 867 × 481 (160 KB) | Chetvorno | Switched images so the object statue has its right paw raised, instead of its left paw, while the image statue has its left paw raised. This makes it consistent with the other drawing in this series: File:Mirror_image_reversal_-_viewer_rotation.svg | |
| 04:01, 3 January 2017 |  | 867 × 481 (150 KB) | Chetvorno | User created page with UploadWizard |
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