Mirrors
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How do you hold two mirrors so as to get an integral number of images of
yourself?
Discuss the handedness of the images.
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Set up two mirrors so as to make perfect kaleidoscopic patterns.
How can you use them to make a snowflake?
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Fold and cut hearts out of paper.
Then make paper dolls.
Then honest snowflakes.
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Set up three or more mirrors so as to make perfect kaleidoscopic patterns.
Fold and cut such patterns out of paper.
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Why does a mirror reverse right and left rather than up and down?
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Peter Doyle