Non-Reversing Mirror - Neatorama

Andrew Hicks, a mathematician at Drexel University, have created a mirrored surface that is bent in a way so the image you see is not reversed (not a mirror image).

From the New Scientist:

By calculating how to vary the way each of tens of thousands of points on a mirror's surface reflects light he can create mirrors that do amazing things. For example, reflecting text without reversing it or capturing a full 360º scene without distorting objects.

Link - via geekologie

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After reading a book called The King in the Window, I have become obessed with getting a true mirror. If you want to see a better look at a true mirror go to www.truemirror.com! They definitely take the cake!

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It probably has one sweet spot where it works, and all other angles look like the Hall of Mirrors.

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How is this different from truemirror GeneAriani pointed out? I saw on these in their old nyc show years ago and it was strange. Their site claims the method was patented in 1887.

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for once, something neat..
a lot more work and this could be used to create invisibility cloaks surely.

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@GeneAriani. The mirror shown at the site that you link to appears to be a right-angle "pair" with the crease smoothed out. Go to the "to order" page to see other samples. Andrew Hicks' mirror is not a right-angle mirror.

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Sherlock Holmes would LOVE this post.

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The JFK assassination has an obvious, partial solution. It involves not Lee Harvey Oswald, but the mob and the John Birch Society -- who are connected through Clint Murchison, J. Edgar Hoover, and the CIA. For the details see my webpage at:
http://home.roadrunner.com/~markwrede/NonFic/PerennialMystery.html

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In 1963, no one lining the parade route was using a 'video camera'. They used 8mm and possibly 16mm film camera to shoot movies. The video camera wouldn't come into common usage outside a studio setting for another 15 years.

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For all I know, he might be an internet crank, but I find Fischer's 1997 theory about the rongorongo script quite plausible and compelling.

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I call BS on the Marfa lights. It's a fascinating phenomena, and I wouldn't blame Texas for building a viewing area. But Fata Morgana inversion layer mirages (a superior mirage type) are easily replicated and fairly easily tested, and even though there are some reports of lights that wouldn't follow that kind of phenomena, there are no credible photos or videos of non-compliant visages.

Anyway, the SPS from UTexas did a lot of work on this a couple years back, and some of it is published here:

http://ajp.aapt.org/resource/1/ajpias/v77/i8/p697_s1?isAuthorized=no

It explains well why they can't be seen close-up. Personally, I'd love to see them if I were in the area...meteorological phenomena are awesome!

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