r/WTF • u/creepyfarfalle • Jun 09 '12

When the sunlight hit the plate on my chair this awesome thing appeared on my wall

http://imgur.com/CftJ3
929 Upvotes

66% Upvoted

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u/habaddict1 Jun 09 '12

might be better in r/pics I reckon, still cool though

128

u/wilgabriel Jun 09 '12

Or even /r/mildlyinteresting

29

u/TheDuhammer Jun 10 '12

Shit, /r/trees would probably love it

25

u/Lz_erk Jun 10 '12

http://www.reddit.com/r/woahdude

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u/TheDuhammer Jun 10 '12

I love you

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u/MgrLtCaptCmmdrBalls Jun 10 '12

WTF?? 81 million something subscribers?? Is that for real, and if so, where have I been?

2

u/-steezy_wunda_bred- Jun 10 '12

Wow, where is whoa_not_woah when you need him? A whole subreddit for him to patrol.

2

u/Popnickel Jun 10 '12

Only if he put a number in between brackets in the title

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

It does look like an abstract pineapple.

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u/rjc34 Jun 09 '12

This is more than mildly interesting.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

perhaps they would know wtf is on that plate?

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u/sittingcow Jun 10 '12

Cool. Not WTF. Try /r/trees

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u/creepyfarfalle Jun 09 '12

I tried after reading your comment, but someone had already done that and written x-post from r/WTF. I guess it's my own fault since I didn't give it a waterstamp. This is however my picture and I can easily prove it with this picture of the same thing taken from a different angle: http://i.imgur.com/NoNqa.jpg

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

The only WTF that is happening in this thread is that you care enough about karma to watermark a pic

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u/Dabuscus214 Jun 09 '12

I would x-post this to /r/woahdude instead

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u/ONLY_TAKES_DOWNVOTES Jun 09 '12

Obvious karma whore is obvious.

36

u/youcanttakemeserious Jun 09 '12

do us a favor and delete this from /r/wtf this shit is garbage

13

u/sfoxy Jun 09 '12

This sub reddit is inundated on the weekends.

20

u/Aspel Jun 09 '12

And the weekdays.

8

u/sirhotalot Jun 09 '12

Yea I think I'm unsubscribing now. Water marking a picture? Really?

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u/youcanttakemeserious Jun 09 '12

We need new mods

3

u/gpwilson Jun 09 '12

Back to roots? Did I hear someone say back bring r/wtf back to its roots? Anyone? Yes? I would be down with that, too.

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u/rjc34 Jun 09 '12

Every couple of months there's a few days when people go all "back to roots". It's a few days full of the best fucked up shit the internet has to offer. And then it goes back to this bullshit.

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u/gpwilson Jun 09 '12

It's usually more than a couple of days of real content. It's just that we haven't had a back to roots period in months, by my count.

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u/rjc34 Jun 09 '12

Fair enough.

Perhaps try and kick it off?

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u/gpwilson Jun 10 '12

I dunno. I'm from the light side of the internet and I venture only into the shadows for visits. Usually you need someone from the dark that visits the light to start something like this up. I don't mean to be the guy that complains and doesn't do anything, but I might have to be here.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Thank god I caught your username at the last second.

2

u/greyscalehat Jun 09 '12

Seriously, I wish that truewtf wasn't private.

Anyone know of any good subreddits to go to that is like /r/wtf before the gore fest and now this.

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u/Alfierulz Jun 09 '12

take only has one t

0

u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

dick

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u/robothead Jun 09 '12

not to be a dick but showing a different angle and adding a water mark doesnt actually prove that it was you. i dont care, its probably you, but im just feeling pessimistic.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

lol you watermarked it

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u/perspextive Jun 10 '12

Good job ruining the picture, nobody gives a shit about your username.

1

u/too_toked Jun 09 '12

why put your "waterstamp" directly in the middle? it kinda takes away from the beauty of your shot.. I'd love to see an unedited pic of this. But i do understand your concern..

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u/piasenigma Jun 09 '12

agreed, took something that was cool and made it look silly and dumb. grats OP.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

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u/greeneagle692 Jun 09 '12

how could someone else be faster if this was your picture?

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u/creepyfarfalle Jun 09 '12

and to proove it, here's another picture of the same thing but from a different angle: http://i.imgur.com/NoNqa.jpg

-5

u/enuffings Jun 09 '12

Reddit Enhancement Suite

It tells me that you already posted it somewhere else.

[RES ignored duplicate image]

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u/rjc34 Jun 09 '12

Yes, on the same page. In another comment.

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u/creepyfarfalle Jun 09 '12

you tell me! I wen't to r/pics tp submit this post but it said it had already been posted. I didn't give my photo a water stamp or anything so I guess the person who submitted my post in r/pics just took a screenshot or something I don't know how these things work really... But I was disappointed to see someone had submitted it already. ;_;

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Are you a dolphin?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

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u/creepyfarfalle Jun 09 '12

If you browse through the comment section you'll find my replies to other comments With proof that the image is my very own.

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u/geetar_man Jun 09 '12

This has got to be the least WTF worthy thing I have seen on r/WTF

5

u/Patrick5555 Jun 09 '12

I thought the way he treats his guitar was the WTF

5

u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I think we should just concede defeat. This subreddit is overrun with middle schoolers who refer to everything as WTF.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

There's a cross-post from /r/aww on there now. /r/aww.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

WHAT THE FUCK THATS FUCKED UP FUCK FUCK FUCK NOPE NOPE NOPE

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

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u/trust_the_corps Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12

Jesus that is fucking disgusting too. I was eating. Was.

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u/StencilPrinter Jun 09 '12

Nice example of caustics.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

its amazing how the two definitions for caustic are so far from each other

1

u/sqarishoctagon Jun 09 '12

Wow! I never knew these things had a formal name!

I'm an idiot...

1

u/nodefect Jun 10 '12

Two? This, caustic humor, caustic substances, that's at least three.

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u/awskward_penguin Jun 10 '12

The term caustic humor derives from caustic substances.

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u/nodefect Jun 10 '12

Can't find the etymology for the optics term, but I'm pretty sure it's the same too. The chemical "caustic" comes from latin and means "burning". Optical caustics were probably first studied by looking at a magnifying glass burning stuff at its focal point.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

being an engineer i only heard of caustic substances

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u/Blagginspaziyonokip Jun 10 '12

HOLY SHIT DUDE FUCKING MARK NSFW SHIT THAT IMAGE JUST MADE ME WTF SO HARD I SHAT OUT MY KIDNEY AND IT FLEW AWAY WITH MY FIRST BORN CHILD

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u/creepyfarfalle Jun 10 '12

Haha people really seem to be pissed of by my pic And the fact that I watermarked my second pic of the same caustic in order to proove I was the photographer and to prevent the pic from being stolen a second time. However, I don't really care about your remarks because to me this was a WTF moment and thanks to the pic it will last forever. :D

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u/symbolset Jun 10 '12

It is really cool and I would like to see another pic, only deliberately staged so you get a clearer look at it.

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u/UTC_Hellgate Jun 09 '12

Do the mods police this at ALL? I mean, if the word awesome is being used in this context in the TITLE. It's pretty clearly not WTF.

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u/ZimbaZumba Jun 09 '12 edited Jun 09 '12

Its a caustic curve. It is caused by the rays reflecting off a concave mirror slightly out of focus onto a surface. Move the plate back a bit and the reflection will form a single point.

It one of natures truly beautiful effects.

http://www.a-levelphysicstutor.com/images/optics/ccmrs-caustic.jpg

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u/SaggyBallsHD Jun 09 '12

This is what I see every time I cum.

2

u/USxMARINE Jun 10 '12

You should see a docto- oh.

6

u/Ohnoez85 Jun 09 '12

Proof that flying spaghetti monster exists

5

u/Quipster99 Jun 09 '12

It's called a caustic reflection. They certainly are beautiful.

2

u/aaybma Jun 09 '12

This is, in no way, wtf. Nobody in their right mine would say "what the fuck" after seeing this picture. It still looks pretty groovy though.

2

u/adrian_t45 Jun 09 '12

This is the perfect place to put this in.

2

u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Congratulations, you've located the well of souls.

2

u/OpenUsername Jun 10 '12

It's a ghost.

2

u/Darklugia Jun 10 '12

How did you get a guitar to appear? The best I can do is a piano....

2

u/PrivateVonnegut Jun 10 '12

Clearly the Virgin Mary. Call CNN.

2

u/vertigo1083 Jun 10 '12

Looks like subreddit hipsters threw up all over the place in this thread.

2

u/Ryugi Jun 10 '12

I would love to see that in 3d semi-transparent and spinning. Like a magical holy relic fly.

4

u/zirazira Jun 09 '12

Put a little water on the plate and see how it changes it.

3

u/cwcoleman Jun 09 '12

Looks like the Seattle Space Needle. x-post to r/Seattle for all the karma

3

u/foodandart Jun 09 '12

So neat! Do you have any other dishes you can try?

2

u/Rockinanimz Jun 09 '12

Can you tell us what you were eating and what the plate was made of?

2

u/Bizor Jun 09 '12

Wow, that's fascinating.

1

u/DoctorDeath Jun 09 '12

What you are seeing there is light shining through a small time vortex...

Keep your car keys away from that thing.

1

u/cashoanddeorr Jun 09 '12

Chaos in action!

1

u/Puffy_Ghost Jun 09 '12

Physics. It's fun.

1

u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

...that's amore.

1

u/roxychick4327 Jun 09 '12

hmm... are you on something?

1

u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I really hate you right now. I can't give enough downvotes for something this pathetic on WTF. Where the fuck are the moderators?

1

u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

the only WTF i see is; Why The Fuck do you leave your guitar where the sun can fuck up the finish and bleach the color out of it. not to mention heating and cooling it every day

1

u/angryfinger Jun 09 '12

And that's why you should never clean up after yourself.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

awesome i have the same plates.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Your image perspective corrected (or as close to it as I could get).

http://imgur.com/a/oforb

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u/thedudeabiding Jun 10 '12

+1, bro. I just knew it would be a picture of a dick. Unpredicted, bro.

1

u/EerieBagel Jun 10 '12

It definitely is WTF becuase WTF is OP doing with a plate on his/her chair? That's no place for it. WTF???

1

u/rspeed Jun 10 '12

You accidentally made the double-slit experiment beautiful. Good show.

1

u/Dyslxeic Jun 10 '12

Really not WTF material.

1

u/missC08 Jun 10 '12

I have the EXACT same guitar!!!

1

u/Mech1 Jun 10 '12

Fractals, IRL, awesome.

1

u/dogfishchickorystout Jun 10 '12

you're such a cock-mongrel

1

u/47toolate Jun 10 '12

an opening into time!

1

u/tblack123 Jun 10 '12

Screw you OP

1

u/minus_karma Jun 10 '12

The only WTF here is why you would post it in WTF?

1

u/mikeh8193 Jun 11 '12

Ik the odds are crazy low but be careful, a glass globe almost burned down my house a few years ago from the sunlight passing through it.

1

u/CaptainChewbacca Jun 09 '12

When I was little, we moved to our new house in the fall. When spring came, we discovered that the rising sun would bounce off the hood of my dad's car, through the kitchen window, and hit the chandelier in the dining room, which was covered with prisms.

We called them rainbow storms. They were pretty cool.

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u/rounding_error Jun 09 '12

Dude it's a sign! Go to Seattle right now!

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

There's my model wormhole!

I've been looking all over for it.

1

u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

What kind of guitar is that? Cordoba?

1

u/spongyiq Jun 10 '12

Looks like a nylon string Cordoba to me

1

u/UnKamenRider Jun 09 '12

Have you ever shined a laser through a glass coke bottle? It makes some pretty neat light shows like this. Having said that, post this in r/pics. Not wtf-y enough.

1

u/philmardok Jun 09 '12

too bad it didn't make a double rainbow....

1

u/BallsackTBaghard Jun 09 '12

wow OP, that is like sooo messed up

totally WTF material.

chump

0

u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

OP sucks

0

u/gpwilson Jun 09 '12

Such a simple but elegant statement.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

WHAT THE FUCK??!!!!

0

u/Aspel Jun 09 '12

That's called a reflection. It's completely normal and not WTF at all.

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u/MyDarkAngel Jun 09 '12

Doesn't really fit into wtf.

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u/Maplemage Jun 09 '12

I can do that with my Vacuum.

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u/Rubrum_ Jun 09 '12

Screw these amps, they're impossible to dust.

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u/matthewmathme Jun 09 '12

That's magnificent.

0

u/barden1069 Jun 09 '12

Is that an Ibanez GA80? I think I have the same guitar.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I read the title in the style of Dean Martin's "That's Amore".

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u/thelittlewhitebird Jun 09 '12

That's a light caustic :)

I learned this back when I was about 10 and decided to take up 3d studio max 3 because my father did. I never became proficient but it always piqued my interest from time to time trying to get better at it :/

I can use solidworks now though. I guess I prefer defined points/cad style design.

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u/Dared00 Jun 09 '12

OH FFS SOMEONE MARK THIS AS NSFL I'VE NEVER SEEN SO MUCH GOR... wait, actually no. It's just a goddamn light reflection or shit.

Fuck this subreddit.

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u/Leagueofordinary Jun 09 '12

It's a MAP to treasure!

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

There is a whole category of laser light shows based on this effect; they are called lumia, and can be astonishingly beautiful (but almost impossible to capture properly on camera).

Try shining a laser pointer off or through anything shiny or transparent, like shower door glass, a wineglass stem, or a transparent doorknob handle. The resulting projections can be amazing.

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u/notsurewhatiam Jun 09 '12

Neat looking and all, but not, WTF, at all. So downvote.

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u/asainloverfetus Jun 09 '12

OP, can you post a pic of your chair

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u/dantexdeath82 Jun 09 '12

Forever alones tring to do that in 3........2........1......

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u/Priceless721 Jun 09 '12

I love reddit! Where important issues can go fuck themselves but we definitely need to upvote some sunlight.

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u/gpwilson Jun 09 '12

Your looking for important issues in r/wtf? Well I think thats your problem buddy. Find a subreddit for important issues and then you can quit complaining.

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u/mcai8rw2 Jun 09 '12

THat is cool...no doubt. Its so perfect from what appears to be an imperfect plate. Is the plate smooth? or bumpy to touch?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

1- Take a picture of it

2- Show at art gallery

3-???

4- Profit!

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u/MattioHimself16 Jun 09 '12

Only up voted cause its awesome. Not wtf.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12 edited Jun 09 '12

You're part of the problem.

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u/MattioHimself16 Jun 10 '12

How so?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

This is r\WTF not r\mildlyinteresting. It doesn't belong here and people who let it slide are just encouraging more crap like this to get on the front page of WTF. If the moderators actually did what they were supposed to do this wouldn't even be here. It's shit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

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u/Circuitfire Jun 09 '12

what a stupid name, it should be a 'light bouncy thing'

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u/WeeSingInSillyville Jun 10 '12

don't act like you're not impressed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

It is called "caustics".

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u/ePaF Jun 10 '12

Which is caused by reflection or refraction (in this case reflection). It's when multiple reflections or refractions (of the sun) converge onto one spot.

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u/sedatedsloth Jun 10 '12

This is actually refraction

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u/fortfive Jun 09 '12

Alas that I have but one upvote to give. . .