Math Professor Invents Non-Reversing Mirror

Re:Math Professor Invents Non-Reversing Mirror by naner on Thursday December 20, 2012 @12:34PM (#4948835)

I'm having a hard time visualizing this.

If I am standing directly in front of this mirror and slowly reach forward with my right hand until I touch the mirror, will my hand be touching its mirrored self?

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Re:Math Professor Invents Non-Reversing Mirror by jere on Thursday December 20, 2012 @01:43PM (#4949201)

Try this with a metal spoon. If you bring in your right hand, it will be on the left side, but extremely distorted.

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Re:Math Professor Invents Non-Reversing Mirror by adamman on Thursday December 20, 2012 @12:52PM (#4948933)

I'm guessing that the only way you could touch the mirror image of your finger is by doing so in the middle of the mirror. If you move the finger out toward the shoulder, I'm betting your arm would stretch off the mirror away from your body. I could be totally wrong though.

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Re:Math Professor Invents Non-Reversing Mirror by dllthomas on Thursday December 20, 2012 @01:57PM (#4949265)

Look at the cover of the book that the trick mirror is resting on.

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Re:Math Professor Invents Non-Reversing Mirror by mbq on Thursday December 20, 2012 @01:21PM (#4949091)

It seems this mirror is especially shaped to project the ordinarily reflected image in a reversed way, thus putting an object near it surface will break the illusion and show skewed but normally reflected image.

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Re:Math Professor Invents Non-Reversing Mirror by dllthomas on Thursday December 20, 2012 @01:56PM (#4949260)

Which seems to be what is going on with the book cover, in the picture in TFA.

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Re:Math Professor Invents Non-Reversing Mirror by jonknee on Thursday December 20, 2012 @02:59PM (#4949601)

It should be easy enough to simulate with a webcam.

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