The ancients used a slightly convex bronze mirror to make it look upright or upside down.
The ancients used a slightly convex bronze mirror to make it look upside down. A bronze mirror is equivalent to a plane mirror, and the objects inside form an isometric virtual image. Laser collimation is based on the principle of linear propagation of light, according to the definition of focal point and focal length of convex lens. When the convex lens is imaged, it becomes an inverted and reduced real image.