Feb 26 2009Oooh, Shiny: A Non-Reversing Mirror
Finally, I can sleep peacefully at night.
Hicks, a mathematician at Drexel University, Philadelphia, used computer algorithms to generate the mirror's bizarre surface, which curves and bends in different directions. The curves direct rays from an object across the mirror's face before sending them back to the viewer, flipping the conventional mirror image.
Awesome. I want them installed on the ceiling above my bed. Because then, wait -- it would still look me making love to myself, wouldn't it? Damn.
Reflecting on a new generation of mirrors [newscientist]
and a cool gallery of
Anamorphic Art [newscientist]
Thanks to twellve, who doesn't need a non-reversing mirror because she stopped wearing eyeliner when he found out it was tested on bunnies.
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Reader Comments
1. Moose Knuckle - February 26, 2009 2:17 PM
Yes, please send me one of your retarded mirrors
2. Moose Knuckle - February 26, 2009 2:18 PM
This is just asking to have you poke your own eye out shaving
3. Pew³ - February 26, 2009 2:20 PM
When I look into mirrors, I can't see my eyelids blink or my upper lip move....
Too soon?
4. Moose Knuckle - February 26, 2009 2:21 PM
'Course, it may be cool to have a couple in my house, that way if I have a home intruder I could stalk them "Enter the dragon" style
5. Austin - February 26, 2009 2:23 PM
Because then, wait -- it would still look me making love to myself, wouldn't it?
Typo...
6. rancor - February 26, 2009 2:26 PM
does it rotate the image 90 degree's as well, because shouldn't gravitation be on the right hand side vertical?
7. pwall5000 - February 26, 2009 2:28 PM
@5 there is also a typo in your name, you typed A-U-S-T-I-N when you meant to type F-A-G
8. poodles - February 26, 2009 2:28 PM
this is what happens when scientists start using drugs
9. mizz - February 26, 2009 2:31 PM
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10. naas - February 26, 2009 2:33 PM
racecar spelled backwards still spells racecar
11. jizza the butt - February 26, 2009 2:37 PM
cool list: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29396500/?
12. DanDan - February 26, 2009 2:40 PM
@6 The spine of the book is in the reflection not the front of the book.
13. gizmoduck - February 26, 2009 2:40 PM
doof doof spelled backwards is food food
14. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - February 26, 2009 2:42 PM
kcudomzig is gizmoduck backwards
15. pwall5000 - February 26, 2009 2:45 PM
daisy spelled backwards is retarded whore.
16. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - February 26, 2009 2:45 PM
3- Not unless you licked your lips repeatedly.
17. LSDeisel - February 26, 2009 2:47 PM
@9
I am always finding myself jerking off but i dont come on here and tell everyone because that would be embarassing......damn it!
Anyway, keep your damn business to yourself
18. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - February 26, 2009 2:49 PM
*Just an observation- Anyone else notice that GW flooded post updates last night and today to drop his "mistake" off the RSS feed and quicklinks? He should be a politician, kisses ass, then covers up the original offense...
19. Pew³ - February 26, 2009 2:50 PM
@16. I tend to when Gizmoduck is around.
20. BOOSH! - February 26, 2009 2:54 PM
I don't think drooling uncontrollably is the same thing as licking your lips.
21. Pew³ - February 26, 2009 3:00 PM
@20. Hey! My drool is totally under control! That's what this Lobster bib is for.
22. gizmoduck - February 26, 2009 3:00 PM
@19
heck yes.
we shall start an army of fatality.
BOOSH, fetch the swords
23. naas - February 26, 2009 3:02 PM
@13 and with that, taco bell :)
24. BOOSH! - February 26, 2009 3:18 PM
On it! Should I bring the Key Blade too?
25. gizmoduck - February 26, 2009 3:23 PM
@23
i was driving home and dropped the 3 all over my pea coat.
not a good time
26. gizmoduck - February 26, 2009 3:30 PM
@24
bring the keyblade, bring the bush light beer and we will f*cking rage!
27. catch22 - February 26, 2009 3:46 PM
...neat!
28. JiggilyJoe - February 26, 2009 3:50 PM
I think we crashed the New Scientist Server.... Is it still called slashdotting if we didnt come from Slashdot?
29. Watch - February 26, 2009 5:02 PM
this is cool!
30. kitty - February 26, 2009 6:22 PM
Yeah, @ 9 Mizz.
I agree with you. My lover was found online at the millionaire & celebrity dating club ____Millionaire Loving. C O M____last year.
31. patente - February 26, 2009 8:02 PM
The gadget fan in me says "awesome"
The sceptic in me says "Well he could have mirrored the title of the book directly on it and used a normal mirror"
32. johnb - February 26, 2009 8:38 PM
I actually had this guy as a professor for a class, The Mathematics of Images.
..... I had no idea what was going on
33. Somebody - February 27, 2009 2:40 AM
ECNALUBMA
Now get the F*** out of the WAY!!!
34. Samuel Gean - February 27, 2009 5:53 PM
Hey, I go to Drexel! Go us.
35. Juji Fish - March 1, 2009 8:02 PM
I saw a mirror like this at New Mexico Tech in Socorro several years ago. I think it was part of a student's Masters Project and it was on display in one of the engineering buildings.
36. YourJoyIsMyLow - July 23, 2009 1:41 AM
I'd probably just set one up in the living room just in case of intruders, greeting them with a "Hahaha, you think this is the REAL Quaid?"