Not exactly new: http://www.truemirror.com
Math Professor Invents Non-Reversing Mirror
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#42was hoping for more technical details. maybe they're still going through the patent application?
according to the wikipedia article it's a surface of micro-mirrors that work in pairs. so it's basically a pair of mirrors scaled down and repeated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-reversing_mirror not very exciting really.
No, that is not what Prof. Hicks made. His mirror is a single curved piece.
Source: I am a former undergrad research assistant of his.
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#43Not exactly new: http://www.truemirror.com
No, that link is for 2 mirrors.
What Prof. Hicks made is a single curved mirror. That is new. That is why his results got published and he was awarded a patent for it.
If you had bothered to read the linked article, you'd already understand the distinction.
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#44This is probably a small array of double mirror. If you look at the images you see slight loss of light (a bit darker) on his none-reversing mirror. Which is probably due to the gaps between the arrays behaving a bit like a scrim in shooting sets. I think the invention will have some uses. For anyone who has tried to do anything that requires precision in front a mirror the reversing of the mirror is disorienting. I…
No, it is not two mirrors. What Prof. Hicks made is a single mirror. The linked article explicitly says this.
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#45For those interested in learning more about this, including the math behind the mirror's curve, check out Prof. Hicks's website: http://www.math.drexel.edu/~ahicks/
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
according to the wikipedia article it's a surface of micro-mirrors that work in pairs. so it's basically a pair of mirrors scaled down and repeated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-reversing_mirror not very exciting really.
No, that is not what Prof. Hicks made. His mirror is a single curved piece. Source: I am a former undergrad research assistant of his.
huh. thanks. so that's the second type listed at wikipedia? or am i confused? perhaps you or he could fix / clarify the wikipedia article? i guess i could but it feels odd to do it third-hand...
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#47He's looking for uses beyond art galleries. I'm reminded of "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat" by Oliver Sachs.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_f...)
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you read fifty shades? I find that people like to bag on stuff they've never actually experienced first hand.
Embarrassingly, I listened to a youtube video where a woman read the book aloud (I listened for about 30 pages). She ended up hitting herself in the head about a dozen times because the writing is that awful.
Fifty Shades is pornography for women. IMHO that's the only reason everyone is clutching their pearls about the bad writing. Your typical male pornography storylines/cinematography are much, much worse - and yet they are typically spared the high-brow literary scrutiny.
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#49Not exactly new: http://www.truemirror.com
No, that link is for 2 mirrors. What Prof. Hicks made is a single curved mirror. That is new. That is why his results got published and he was awarded a patent for it. If you had bothered to read the linked article, you'd already understand the distinction.
I agree that it is a neat implementation. I just meant that the idea of a non-reversing mirror is not new.
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#50I'm having a hard time visualizing this. If I am standing directly in front of this mirror and slowly reach forward with my right hand until I touch the mirror, will my hand be touching its mirrored self?
It should be easy enough to simulate with a webcam.