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The children's book, Round Trip, by Ann Jonas used ambiguous images in the illustrations, where the reader could read the book front to back normally at first, and then flip it upside down to continue the story and see the pictures in a new perspective. [16]
An intriguing catchphrase typography upside down invites the reader to rotate the magazine, in which the first names "Michael" or "Peter" are transformed into "Nathalie" or "Alice". [107] [108] In 2015 iSmart's logo on one of its travel chargers went viral because the brand's name turned out to be a natural ambigram that read "+Jews!" upside down.
The use of ANSI art and box-drawing characters to manually draw sideways text has the advantage of being copiable and pastable (whereas images are not in most plain text situations), but generally creates large characters and is not generally readable by search engines. With the broader adoption of CSS3 by all of the major browsers, these ...
In 1685–1686, Johannes Zahn was an early advocate for use of the device for educational purposes: detailed anatomical illustrations were difficult to draw on a chalkboard, but could easily be copied onto glass or mica. [15] 1737 etching/engraving of an organ grinder with a magic lantern on her back by Anne Claude de Caylus (after Edme Bouchardon)
A common modern usage of mirror writing can be found on the front of ambulances, where the word "AMBULANCE" is often written in very large mirrored text, so that drivers see the word the right way around in their rear-view mirror. It is also on fire engines and police cars too. Some people are able to produce handwritten mirrored text.
Resupination is derived from the Latin word resupinus, meaning "bent back with the face upward" or "on the back". [1] " Resupination" is the noun form of the adjective "resupine" which means "being upside-down, supine or facing upward".
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It hung upside down at MOMA for 47 days in 1961. [8] [9] Georgia O'Keeffe's The Lawrence Tree (1929) depicts a tree from its foot. It hung up upside down in 1931 and between 1979 and 1989. Her Oriental Poppies hung upside down for 30 years at the Weisman Art Museum of the University of Minnesota. [8] Long Grass With Butterflies, 1890