27 Nov
2007
27 Nov
'07
11:41 a.m.
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, David Wilson wrote:
When we contemplate our image in a mirror, biology is definitely involved.
- Our Euclidean-space-adapted vision does not deal as well with visually distorted objects. For this reason, we tend to enounter planar mirrors.
- Our gravity-adapted vision does not deal as well with objects that are not subject to the gravity we are experiencing. For this reason, we tend to encounter mirrors that preserve the up-down orientation of reflected objects.
Are you suggesting that there are planar mirrors which would appear to flip images top to bottom instead of appearing to flip them left to right?