Abstract: Novel Journal of Applied Sciences Research

Abstract:
The significance of the mirror reversal problem has long been left ambiguous. The fact that the purely physical pro cess of the mirror reversal has not been determined is the fundamental reason the problem has not been resolved. This study deduced the purely physical process of the mirror reversal phenomenon directly from the specular re f lection for the first time, utilizing the mechanical camera structure and Cartesian coordinate system, by excluding non-physical elements, one of which is the virtual image and the other of which is directional notions such as top-bottom, front-back, and right-left, and demarcated the geometrical condition in which the reversal should not arise. By doing so, the physical process successfully became integrated into the visual process of the observer based on human factors. This analysis also clarified the cognitive process of the mirror problem, which consists of the perceptual process in the anisotropic space and the thinking process in the isotropic geometric space.