Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-i Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:ags From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Why do mirrors reverse left & right, not up & down? Message-ID: <174@pucc-i> Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 14:30:56 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-i.174 Posted: Thu Feb 2 14:30:56 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 03:18:54 EST References: <533@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 29 Mirrors do NOT reverse left & right, OR up & down. Only back & front (i.e. perpendicular to the mirror). If you WANT to reverse left & right, that can be arranged. Set up two mirrors at an angle, like this: /\ / \ / \ / \ / \ ^ ^ ^ | | | | | | line of sight If you look into these mirrors (placed approximately at right angles) and you are facing north, then you can wink your EAST eye and see your image wink its WEST eye. -- Dave Seaman ..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags "Against people who give vent to their loquacity by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."