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  2. Rotations and reflections in two dimensions - Wikipedia

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    A rotation in the plane can be formed by composing a pair of reflections. First reflect a point P to its image P′ on the other side of line L 1. Then reflect P′ to its image P′′ on the other side of line L 2. If lines L 1 and L 2 make an angle θ with one another, then points P and P′′ will make an angle 2θ around point O, the ...

  3. Similarity (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Similar figures. In Euclidean geometry, two objects are similar if they have the same shape, or if one has the same shape as the mirror image of the other.More precisely, one can be obtained from the other by uniformly scaling (enlarging or reducing), possibly with additional translation, rotation and reflection.

  4. Reflection symmetry - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, reflection symmetry, line symmetry, mirror symmetry, or mirror-image symmetry is symmetry with respect to a reflection. That is, a figure which does not change upon undergoing a reflection has reflectional symmetry. In 2-dimensional space, there is a line/axis of symmetry, in 3-dimensional space, there is a plane of symmetry

  5. Euclidean plane isometry - Wikipedia

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    Call the images of p 2 and p 3 under this reflection p 2 ′ and p 3 ′. If q 2 is distinct from p 2 ′, bisect the angle at q 1 with a new mirror. With p 1 and p 2 now in place, p 3 is at p 3 ″; and if it is not in place, a final mirror through q 1 and q 2 will flip it to q 3. Thus at most three reflections suffice to reproduce any plane ...

  6. Reflection (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    A reflection through an axis. In mathematics, a reflection (also spelled reflexion) [1] is a mapping from a Euclidean space to itself that is an isometry with a hyperplane as the set of fixed points; this set is called the axis (in dimension 2) or plane (in dimension 3) of reflection.

  7. Mirror image - Wikipedia

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    Thus reflection is a reversal of the coordinate axis perpendicular to the mirror's surface. Although a plane mirror reverses an object only in the direction normal to the mirror surface, this turns the entire three-dimensional image seen in the mirror inside-out, so there is a perception of a left-right reversal.

  8. Dividing a square into similar rectangles - Wikipedia

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    The solution in which the three rectangles are all of different sizes and where they have aspect ratio ρ 2, where ρ is the plastic ratio. The fact that a rectangle of aspect ratio ρ 2 can be used for dissections of a square into similar rectangles is equivalent to an algebraic property of the number ρ 2 related to the Routh–Hurwitz ...

  9. Dynamic rectangle - Wikipedia

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    A dynamic rectangle is a right-angled, four-sided figure (a rectangle) with dynamic symmetry which, in this case, means that aspect ratio (width divided by height) is a distinguished value in dynamic symmetry, a proportioning system and natural design methodology described in Jay Hambidge's books.