Making upside-down glasses

[Protium]

I'm trying to make glasses for inverting vision so I can do the experiment where the brain gets used to inverted vision. I can't figure out how the mirrors would be arranged, and how to make sure the image is just like it's going directly in the eyes, except it is inverted.

 

 

 

I don't need help with making the glasses, I just need to know how the mirrors would be arranged.

Edited July 8, 2011 by Protium

[rktpro]

Use a concave lens. It would work, I guess.

Edited July 8, 2011 by rktpro

[Protium]

Use a concave lens. It would work, I guess.

 

But how would I capture the light in front of me that normally goes in my eyes, and turn it upside down?

[rktpro]

But how would I capture the light in front of me that normally goes in my eyes, and turn it upside down?

 

A lens would make an inverted image. You can't capture light and invert it.

 

Sorry, double post deleted.

Edited July 8, 2011 by rktpro

[swansont]

With normal glasses your eye is on one side of the focal point, basically modifying the focal length of the eye by a small amount. If it's on the other, an inverted image is seen, this effect is much easier to observe if the lens has a short focal length. e.g. a 1 diopter lens has a focal length of a meter. Try something with a focal length of around a centimeter, and held further away from the eye than that.

 

Shorter version: Have you ever looked through a magnifying glass (on a distant object)?

[michel123456]

A lens will reverse left & right too. It is not mirrored, it is rotated 180 degrees.