Funny mirrors' can make you look short, long, fat or disorted. What causes the images of these funny mirrors to be disorted? I know that meritn users are vry smart and they can answer this and help me.
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Shape
The primary cause behind the distorted effects that funhouse mirrors give is the shape of the mirror. Funhouse mirrors differ from regular mirrors because they bend, twist, fold and bulge. The more distorted the shape of a mirror, the less authentic the reflection will be. Regular mirrors are created as flat as possible to give an accurate a reflection as possible. For this reason, a flaw or blemish in a mirror you have been using for a while is usually recognized immediately.
Concave and Convex
The angle of the funhouse mirror determines exactly what kind of distortion is created. When the mirror bulges outward it becomes convex and the result makes one look short and fat. When the mirror curves inward it becomes concave and makes one look elongated and thinner. These changes in appearance are caused by a distortion in the way light is reflected off the mirror.
Perception
The real secret behind how funhouse mirrors work is perception. When you look at yourself in a funhouse mirror the brain has been trained to assume that the rays of light the eyes perceive have arrived directly and have not been reflected. In the case of a regular flat mirror, this presents no problem and the image seen appears to be normal. The problem is that the brain makes the same assumption with a funhouse mirror, but the angle of light has been distorted and so the brain is tricked into seeing the image as fatter, taller, longer, wider and so forth.
The primary cause behind the distorted effects that funhouse mirrors give is the shape of the mirror. Funhouse mirrors differ from regular mirrors because they bend, twist, fold and bulge. The more distorted the shape of a mirror, the less authentic the reflection will be. Regular mirrors are created as flat as possible to give an accurate a reflection as possible. For this reason, a flaw or blemish in a mirror you have been using for a while is usually recognized immediately.
Concave and Convex
The angle of the funhouse mirror determines exactly what kind of distortion is created. When the mirror bulges outward it becomes convex and the result makes one look short and fat. When the mirror curves inward it becomes concave and makes one look elongated and thinner. These changes in appearance are caused by a distortion in the way light is reflected off the mirror.
Perception
The real secret behind how funhouse mirrors work is perception. When you look at yourself in a funhouse mirror the brain has been trained to assume that the rays of light the eyes perceive have arrived directly and have not been reflected. In the case of a regular flat mirror, this presents no problem and the image seen appears to be normal. The problem is that the brain makes the same assumption with a funhouse mirror, but the angle of light has been distorted and so the brain is tricked into seeing the image as fatter, taller, longer, wider and so forth.
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