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It's really amazing, does anyone has a link to an explanation of how this works? does anyone have a theory? Also: Does the car driver mirror work from just the
by cool-RR 18y ago
It's really amazing, does anyone has a link to an explanation of how this works? does anyone have a theory?
Also: Does the car driver mirror work from just the driver's angle, or from every angle? It would be amazing if it worked from every angle.
- swombat 18y agoThey say it in the article... the mirror's curve is calculated to cause the light to be bounced more than once before being reflected to the viewer - so it's more like several mirrors, except they're built into a single physical object that looks like a mirror.
- cool-RR 18y agoI read that. I meant an explanation which actually shows how it's built, not just describing generally its principle of operation.
- jacquesm 18y agoa guy called Michiel Kassies holds a european patent on a structure like that, this was obtained somewhere in '86 so in europe probably at or near expiry. I don't know how to find European patents online otherwise I'd look it up, filing date was probably late '85 or early '86. The thing was wedge shaped for better aerodynamics but looked from the inside of a car like a normal side mirror. No clue anymore how the thing worked exactly except that it was lots and lots of thin sheets with all kinds of interesting properties.
- newt0311 18y agoThe guy who designed these has a webpage here: http://www.math.drexel.edu/~ahicks/ http://www.math.drexel.edu/~ahicks/. One of the links on the page lead to more information on the design of the mirrors.