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Re: Mirror Mirror

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From: BASEL, LESLIE
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:33
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In article <BzAABK.EL2@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, mayor@ee.umanitoba.ca writes...
>I like this mirror thread.  Everybody (including myself) seems to be posting with
>such conviction that they know the answer.  I found that even though i thought i
>had the *exact* solution, i still made a few fundamental boobs.  good!  I like
>finding out when i see the world backwards (pun intended).
> 
>Perhaps we should ask the bearded Spock.
> 
>cam 

Yes!  I remember an article in Scientific American in the late '70s or
early '80s that covered all (?) the different ways of reflecting, 
refracting, and (dare I say it) morphing the world visually.  As soon
as I can get away to a library I will extract some nice ideas from it.
I had a similar argument with a friend (about why left and right is
reversed but not up and down) around that time and I remember from 
that the article called what a standard mirror does as reversing 
handedness not actually reversing left and right. I will post more
after I find the article again.

Rodger Coghlan
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From: leb@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (BASEL, LESLIE)
Date: 16 Dec 1992 21:33 MST  
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