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Re:A mirror flips left and right, but not up and down by onemoreact on Thursday July 21, 2011 @03:21PM (#2790874)
Another way of thinking about it is mirrors swap what is near and far instead of rotating. If your twin was standing on the other side of glass without rotation you would see their back instead of your front. If the mirror is above you then you see your head. If you twin is standing above you then you see their feet.

Flipping thins inside out sounds strange, but it also works. If you take a mask with the same face on the inside and outside and look behind the mask you see the same thing as what you see in the mirror excluding depth perception issues.

Finally, you can think of mirrors as swapping both left and right and top to bottom. If your twin is rotated so their right hand is touching your right hand and their left hand is touching your left hand then their feet are up in the air. (Easiest to visualize with two action figures.)

Re:A mirror flips left and right, but not up and down by InclinedPlane on Thursday July 21, 2011 @03:51PM (#2791000)
This works for any plane through the object, a mirror will appear to "swap" the object along that plane into its mirror image. Left/Right, top/bottom, front/back, even NNW/SSE.