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From: anne@macom1.UUCP (Go Duke Blue Devils!)
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Subject: Re: Mirros "Reversing" (was Re: quick question)
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Date: 4 Feb 88 20:52:18 GMT
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From article <4725@ihlpg.ATT.COM>, by tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter):


>>The reason I think a mirror reverses left to right instead of up and down:
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>>It is  only a simple reflection of light ...
>>... because we see the difference between the way we see ourselves and the
>>way others see ourselves.
> 
> We say a mirror reverses left to right because the symmetric axis
> of  a  person  is  the horizonal.  

Try this -- Go to a dressing room in a store with those mirrored booths --

                 _______
                /       \
               /         \
              /           \
                    X


Stand at the "X" and put your hand over one eye.  With the other eye,
look into the crack where the mirrors meet -- the image of yourself
will intersect you vertically where your open eye is.  Reverse eyes --
pretty interesting.  

-- AMB