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Distort the letters a bit and see if you can write your name so that it can be read either backward or forward or upside down. For example, the words "upside down" in the challenge are distorted so that they can be read when turned halfway around.

Find the symmetry, if any, in each of the following:

a plate,
a bowl,
a fork,
a chair.

Look around and see if you can find shapes that look the same backward and forward or upside down and right side up.

Look in the Yellow Pages to find logos of companies that are the same when looked at from different directions.

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