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unusual facts about Mirror image


Mirror image

In geometry, the mirror image of an object or two-dimensional figure is the virtual image formed by reflection in a plane mirror; it is of the same size as the original object, yet different, unless the object or figure has reflection symmetry (also known as a P-symmetry).


Hemispatial neglect

A patient looking at a mirror image of a map of the World may neglect to see the Western Hemisphere despite their inverted placement onto the right side of the map.

Jacob Kassay

As achromatic objects, their qualities and tonalities are dependent upon not only the canvases themselves but the reflection of their ambient surroundings.


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Frozen mirror image method

Frozen mirror image method (or method of frozen images) is an extension of the method of images for magnet-superconductor systems that has been introduced by Alexander Kordyuk in 1998 to take into account the magnetic flux pinning phenomenon.

KV17

KV17 was damaged when Jean-François Champollion, translator of the Rosetta Stone, removed a wall panel of 2.26 x 1.05 m in a corridor with mirror-image scenes during his 1828-29 expedition.

L-Deoxyribose

It has been used in chemical research, e.g. in the synthesis of mirror-image DNA.

Münchweiler an der Rodalb

The main building on the base was a mirror image of the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.

Tender Years

This French version of the song was used as a basis for the 1963 Dutch hitversion Spiegelbeeld (=mirror image) written by Lodewijk Post and sung by Dutch songstress Willeke Alberti.