Talk:Hand with Reflecting Sphere
Ambiguity of geometry
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- Escher will of course appear reflected in the globe, hence the left/right inversion. The reflected subject is not really holding the sphere horizontally either, the spherical mirror simply distorts the angles so that it might look that way to a casual observer. Last, the reflections of the environment are actually more realistic than you might think - most of the reflected objects are either behind the observer's view or some distance to its side, not within sight. This is a less realistic drawing than other reflective sphere drawings by Escher, but it does not bend reality more than marginally. Don't take my word for this, grab a Christmas ornament and a camera and give it a try yourself. There is nothing extremely strange or ambiguous about the geometry in this composition, even though the drawing of course has many possible and more or less profound interpretations.