On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:13, Seb Perez-D <sbprzd+mathfun@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 17:55, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
What would it look like if one were inside a spherical mirror silvered on the inside?
I've made another attempt, putting the camera closer to the sphere at the origin. Then comes another answer to Dan's question: if your head was in the center but your eye was not, you would see an inverted and deformed image of your head, and you would see all around even the back of your head (assuming that you are not an egg-head and that your head is spherical).
Just to follow up on this one, if your head was perfectly spherical, and in the center of the mirror, you would see an Azimuthal equidistant projection of your head, in one half sphere of the mirror (your head would block the other half). http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbprzd/3046151892/ Azimuthal equi-distant: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/AzimuthalEquidistantProjection.html Cheers, Seb