Reflecting in Parallel Lines

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Reflect the blue triangle in the blue-green line to form the green image. Reflect the green triangle in the green-red line to form the red image. The red triangle, being reflected twice, is oriented like the blue triangle.

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Ignoring the green triangle, the result of the two reflections is to translate the blue triangle to the red triangle through twice the distance between the two mirror lines.

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Contributed by: George Beck (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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