The horror of mirrors

secondpillow · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Location: Orlando

Last night I was looking at myself in the mirror, and was straight-up horrified and disappointed. This morning I conducted a re-review, and it wasn't nearly so bad. Are these mirrors lying to me, or is my body lying to itself?

bort · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:15 pm

There are few known workarounds. One of which involves the flat mirrors. You can use a technique I call "angle bisection". This method works by getting to a position close to the mirror's path and looking what's in the mirror. You then find the object shown in the mirror, map its position and bisect the angle (split it in half). This gives the angle the mirror is facing. You then calculate the width of the mirror and add 10% of my distance from the nearest edge of the mirror to create the "hazard zone". This technique does not work, however, with those stubborn curved mirrors. The curved mirrors are the worst. I take longer to find the object in the mirror, sometimes even twice as long, as it does for me to map the position, bisect the angle, and create the "hazard zone" from all those calculations.

PianoMap · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: victoria, british columbia

かがみ　じごく
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secondpillow · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Location: Orlando

You two said exactly what I was thinking.

psiga · saudade Joined: 04 Dec 2006

I have taken to leaving the medicine cabinet mirror slightly ajar, so that I can see myself from angles other than straight-on. It's interesting how many little details I had been missing.
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Eudaimon · Joined: 08 Sep 2007 Location: Space City

I usually think I look pretty bad in mirrors.

However, I did recently see myself in this one mirror that was part of a sculpture in a museum and I looked pretty damn good.

I think that was because of the lighting. Natural light tends to make things look a lot better.

PianoMap · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: victoria, british columbia

Guys

Is the world we see in the mirror a slightly different world?

If one were to be perfectly surrounded by mirror, would one become a god [of that world]?
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Gin · banned Joined: 05 Dec 2006

bort · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:17 pm

inmatarian · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:25 pm

I heard you can break the universe by putting two mirror faces together. That's why they always put mirrors in frames, so that the frames will prevent the mirrors from touching.
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Mr. Apol · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:28 pm

PianoMap · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: victoria, british columbia

invisibleyogurt · Joined: 30 May 2007

MAYBE THE GUY IN THE MIRROR IS THE REAL ONE AND WE'RE JUST THE REFLECTION AREN'T I DEEP GUYS

inmatarian · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 2:07 am

Dracko · a sapphist fool Joined: 06 Dec 2006

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psiga · saudade Joined: 04 Dec 2006

PianoMap · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: victoria, british columbia

well. i guess that settles it then.

god, I love those Spring of Trivia-type sorts of shows. and you gotta love (hate) the harry potter theme showing up.
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psiga · saudade Joined: 04 Dec 2006