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In mathematics, reflection symmetry, line symmetry, mirror symmetry, or mirror-image symmetry is symmetry with respect to a reflection. That is, a figure which does not change upon undergoing a reflection has reflectional symmetry. In 2-dimensional space, there is a line/axis of symmetry, in 3-dimensional space, there is a plane of symmetry
C i (equivalent to S 2) – inversion symmetry; C 2 – 2-fold rotational symmetry; C s (equivalent to C 1h and C 1v) – reflection symmetry, also called bilateral symmetry. Patterns on a cylindrical band illustrating the case n = 6 for each of the 7 infinite families of point groups. The symmetry group of each pattern is the indicated group.
Symmetries of a regular pentagon. Vertices are colored by their symmetry positions. Blue mirror lines are drawn through vertices and edges. Gyration orders are given in the center. The regular pentagon has Dih 5 symmetry, order 10. Since 5 is a prime number there is one subgroup with dihedral symmetry: Dih 1, and 2 cyclic group symmetries: Z 5 ...
A drawing of a butterfly with bilateral symmetry, with left and right sides as mirror images of each other.. In geometry, an object has symmetry if there is an operation or transformation (such as translation, scaling, rotation or reflection) that maps the figure/object onto itself (i.e., the object has an invariance under the transform). [1]
The role of symmetry in grouping and figure/ground organization has been confirmed in many studies. For instance, detection of reflectional symmetry is faster when this is a property of a single object. [29] Studies of human perception and psychophysics have shown that detection of symmetry is fast, efficient and robust to perturbations.
The symmetry group of a snowflake is D 6, a dihedral symmetry, the same as for a regular hexagon.. In mathematics, a dihedral group is the group of symmetries of a regular polygon, [1] [2] which includes rotations and reflections.
Regular convex and star polygons with 3 to 12 vertices labelled with their Schläfli symbols. These properties apply to all regular polygons, whether convex or star: A regular n-sided polygon has rotational symmetry of order n. All vertices of a regular polygon lie on a common circle (the circumscribed circle); i.e., they are concyclic points.
The Bauhinia blakeana flower on the Hong Kong region flag has C 5 symmetry; the star on each petal has D 5 symmetry. The Yin and Yang symbol has C 2 symmetry of geometry with inverted colors In geometry , a point group is a mathematical group of symmetry operations ( isometries in a Euclidean space ) that have a fixed point in common.