File:Mirror image reversal - object rotated.svg

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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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Diagram illustrating mirror image reversal

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2 January 2017

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current03:45, 9 May 2017Thumbnail for version as of 03:45, 9 May 2017855 × 494 (157 KB)ChetvornoReplaced invalid Inkscape SVG version with "plain SVG" version which passes validation
03:42, 9 May 2017Thumbnail for version as of 03:42, 9 May 2017855 × 494 (157 KB)ChetvornoReplaced invalid Inkscape SVG with "plain SVG" version which passes validation
03:02, 5 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 03:02, 5 January 2017867 × 481 (160 KB)ChetvornoSwitched 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 2017Thumbnail for version as of 04:01, 3 January 2017867 × 481 (150 KB)ChetvornoUser created page with UploadWizard

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