Mirrors math hicks

American mathematician Andrew Hicks has developed sophisticated computer models with which he can produce sophisticated mirrors with unusual properties. The computer calculates how light will be reflected from tens of thousands of faces - and as a result you can make, for example, a mirror in which the text is read normally or a 360-degree panorama is displayed without distortion on a flat surface.



By habrakatom - gallery of the most unusual mirrors Hicks.

This car rearview mirror has a much wider viewing angle (45 °) compared to a standard mirror (17 °). Unfortunately, in America it is forbidden to use curved surfaces as rear-view mirrors, so Hicks hopes to find buyers in other markets, for example, in Europe, where such mirrors are legal.
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The following photo shows a parabolic wide-angle mirror and a panoramic mirror (360 °).



The wide-angle mirror is made in such a way that in it straight lines remain straight. It can be used, for example, to navigate robots.



Andrew Hicks also makes mirrors with a special coating for reflecting infrared light. Such mirrors can be used to obtain a wide-angle picture that will be fed to an infrared camera that tracks, for example, the temperature of a person’s body.



Cylindrical mirrors like this are used mainly in anamorphic painting, that is, in creating distorted paintings that are visible only from a certain angle of view or through a twisted mirror of a particular shape.



via New Scientist