Mirror

Andrew Hicks - mathematician from University Drexel in the Philadelphia with the help of the computer algorithm created several very interesting mirrors. One of them breaks the principle which until now was in force all mirrors. Visible in him objects are not turned at all.




How this possible? The surface of the mirror is bent suitably. This inflicts that sent her across become the light rays which rain on the surface and before they again will hit before our eyes the painting he becomes turns over second time. We can without the problem read the text returned in the mirror thanks to this.


The convex mirror reflecting the offences under the very wide angle is the next work Hicksa, but without characteristic distortions for this type of mirrors. It was created to make possible better navigation to the climbing after the stairs robot.

Several different mirrors of the project Andrew Hicksa you will find on the side New Scientist.