Monday, 24 July 2023

Lateral inversion on holiday

 

I was asked to explain why the writing we could see back-to-front inside the coach ended up the right way round in the reflection. The reflection point is just an axis of symmetry. Bits nearer that axis will also appear near the axis when reflected. Bits further will appear further in reflection. The net effect is the put the letters back to front. In this case, that actually made them readable!