Non-Reversing Mirror

Posted by Queuebot in Pictures, Science & Tech on March 1, 2009 at 1:57 pm

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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Fish Has Mirrors for Eyes

Posted by Alex in Animal, Science & Tech on January 11, 2009 at 2:07 pm

Julian Partridge of Bristol University found something peculiar about the brownsnout spookfish: they have mirrors for eyes!

Tests confirmed the fish is the first vertebrate known to have developed mirrors to focus light into its eyes, the team reports in Current Biology.

"In nearly 500 million years of vertebrate evolution, and many thousands of vertebrate species living and dead, this is the only one known to have solved the fundamental optical problem faced by all eyes – how to make an image – using a mirror," said Professor Julian Partridge, of Bristol University, who conducted the tests.

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Self Portrait Mirrors

Posted by Robert Birming in Home & Garden on October 24, 2007 at 4:32 pm

If you don’t want to go the hard way to find out how you would look with a mustache, Choe & Tomlinson offers an easier way with their self portrait mirrors.

Choose from pirate, mustache, antlers and other designs.

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