The image in the mirror has all the depth of any hologram. Move your head, and you see parallax. Measure the parallax, and you would see the distance implied by the parallax is not the distance from you to the mirror, but from you to the location of the object in the image. Move your head more, and you clearly begin to see a different aspect of the same object in the mirror image. If you can accurately measure the parallax to each point of the image, you would find the parallax implies the distance to each point in the image of object varies exactly as they would if the image is 3 D
The image in the mirror is not some two dimensional map of mere light intensity and color like a print. It captures all the phase angle of the light as well, that is why it can produce the above mentioned features. This is exactly how a hologram makes itself seem 3D.
The image in the mirror is not some two dimensional map of mere light intensity and color like a print. It captures all the phase angle of the light as well, that is why it can produce the above mentioned features. This is exactly how a hologram makes itself seem 3D.
