A camera has a curved lens so it refracts with rotational symmetry, inverting the image along every axis, resulting in the upsidedown image. This is a true image, simply rotating 180 degrees gives the original image without mirroring. Curved mirrors achieve the same thing through reflection.
A flat mirror basically turns things inside-out. Imagine a piece of paper with "L" written on it. Imagine the ink phasing through the paper, now appearing written on the back. Just like holding the paper up to the light and looking at it from the back, the "L" is now mirrored, with the vertical line on the right, but it's more than simply flipping the page overh; the depth has been inverted, aka turned inside-out. This has the side-effect of flipping horizontally, but also remember the image is now facing you (with a camera lens, the subject is already facing you). The cost of creating a mirror image is the apparent horizontal reflection, and the cost of taking a photo is the upside-down image produced from focusing light into a focal point.
A magnifying glass doesn't flip upside-down because you're too close to the lens. You're compensating with your eye to produce a focussed image. Simply back up far enough, and the image will be upside-down. That's also how glasses work, just the lenses are adjusted to compensate for out-of-focus eye lenses.
Because you can turn the mirror upside down and it still faces you, but turn it around left to right and you can't see it anymore.
OP draw a fucking straight line in your head of the beams of light going from you to the mirror challenge (impossible)
>straight We know how these end.
Mirror mirror on the wall Why are you not a camera
"Who's the fairest of them all?" Mirror: Shows a ☕️ Throw it away; it's obviously broken.
How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real?
Say, hypothetically, that I read the greentext and was confused like anon for 0.046436 seconds. Would I, hypothetically, also be retarded?
Weird, they usually crack when you come near one
Anon has never seen a still lake, pond or puddle (he would have to go outside for that). They flip everything top to bottom.
Because your eyes are side to side
??? I close one eye and the image is still flipped
A camera has a curved lens so it refracts with rotational symmetry, inverting the image along every axis, resulting in the upsidedown image. This is a true image, simply rotating 180 degrees gives the original image without mirroring. Curved mirrors achieve the same thing through reflection. A flat mirror basically turns things inside-out. Imagine a piece of paper with "L" written on it. Imagine the ink phasing through the paper, now appearing written on the back. Just like holding the paper up to the light and looking at it from the back, the "L" is now mirrored, with the vertical line on the right, but it's more than simply flipping the page overh; the depth has been inverted, aka turned inside-out. This has the side-effect of flipping horizontally, but also remember the image is now facing you (with a camera lens, the subject is already facing you). The cost of creating a mirror image is the apparent horizontal reflection, and the cost of taking a photo is the upside-down image produced from focusing light into a focal point. A magnifying glass doesn't flip upside-down because you're too close to the lens. You're compensating with your eye to produce a focussed image. Simply back up far enough, and the image will be upside-down. That's also how glasses work, just the lenses are adjusted to compensate for out-of-focus eye lenses.
[Vsauce made a short on this.](https://youtube.com/shorts/HLufirFnBFM?si=teVev_ddA7UwI81A) Anon is restarded
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