Today I decided to turn my computer into a mirror.<\/p>\n
Webcams are great, but they do what video cameras usually do — they show you the way others see you, rather than the way you see yourself in a mirror.<\/p>\n
Because a mirror does a back-front image reversal, it feels like it does a left-right reversal. I wanted to capture that mirroring effect.<\/p>\n
So I wrote a little web program<\/a> to turn my computer screen into a mirror. It works best if you expand your browser to full screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I decided to turn my computer into a mirror. Webcams are great, but they do what video cameras usually do — they show you the way others see you, rather than the way you see yourself in a mirror. Because a mirror does a back-front image reversal, it feels like it does a left-right … Continue reading “Mirror mirror”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28657,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28655\/revisions\/28657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}