I’ve been thinking about symmetry and reflections and mirror images and things like that.
If we stack asymmetrical letters on a vertical axis like this….
. . . When we hit the mirror image button they all change and become illegible.
But, when we stack symmetrical letters on a vertical axis and hit the mirror image button . . .
. . . nothing changes.
Put those same symmetrical letters on a horizontal axis and hit the mirror image button. . . .
. . . and the letters remain legible but they all appear in reverse order. Hmm.m.m
I wonder what would happen to my hat If I were to hit the mirror image button right now?
Wow! Look at that feather! It jumped over on the other side of my hat kind of like we thought it would. . . . . But there also seems to be a slight change in the face, don’t you think? . . . Perhaps the face is slightly asymmetrical ?
Now let’s see what happens when we reverse a landscape image.
That's cool! Let’s see what happens if we join the two images together.
Sometimes we win and sometimes we don’t.
The composition of this photo will be improved simply by displaying it as a mirror image.
What do you think?
Now consider this. By cutting the mirror image of TOYOTA in half and by superimposing only one half of that mirror image onto the original image, we can create two new images, (each comparing one half of the word TOYOTA with its own corresponding half of the mirror image).
The head bone on the left is original. To the right is its mirror image. I detect differences here. Using ourr new left-to-left and right-to-right comparison tool, let’s magnify those differences.
Wow! That’s kind of scary !
Meet Angelo. Throughout the jungles Angelo is known as a lover. He is asymmetrical .
Two very different Angelos offer two very different kinds of a kiss.
Here is an Indian Sadhu (holy man).
And here is the Sadhu’s mirror image.
Here I have constructed a very dramatic Sadhu, but my deceit is revealed by the figures in the background.
Oh, Dear! A frowny face.
This is getting ugly.
Now, here is a friendly, smiling face from Sumatra.
And his asymmetry is quite obviously revealed.
Now, here is a landscape that contains its own mirror image.
And here is its mirror image.
And the two fit together nicely. I wonder if we can make a mirror image from top to bottom?
Yes! Yes, it works!
Now let’s calm down with an old fuzzy face.
This one takes us from saintly to sinister.
For my concluding remarks I have turned to Google, Siri, Alexa, Echo, and Watson for assistance. They have provided me with only two responses (neither of which, I must confess, I fully understand).
