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Reflections

What are Reflections?

A Reflection is a Transformation in which you reflect a shape over a line. It's similar to viewing it through a mirror. It can seem upside down or flipped over.

Examples

Here are a few examples of Reflections:

Example #1

Reflection Example Image

In this example, we reflect the square over the line. It looks we only translated it, because the square is symmetric, but if we used a triangle, it would be easy to see how we reflected the square.

Example #2

Reflection Example Image

In this example, we reflect the triangle over the line. Unlike the previous example, we can easily see how it is reflected, because of the point at the top.

Example #3

Reflection Example Image

In this example, we reflect the square with the smiley face on it over the line. Since there is a smiley face, we can easily see how the reflection works and what the end result looks like.