Purely physical processes of mirror reversal and its application to vision research

This study deduced the purely physical process of the mirror reversal from the specular reflection, 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. 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.<p></p>