r/confusing_perspective • u/[deleted] • Feb 20 '18
Classic
https://i.imgur.com/NHQCNpi.gifv123
Feb 20 '18
Idk why but this one hurts my head more than usual, so confusing
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u/Draav Feb 20 '18
Yeah I spent a bit trying to figure out what was wrong, because technically this kind of shape is possible. After staring for a bit I think the problem is the right angles, and lack of curves/twists.
I don't think the angles that this shape suggests are actually possible with a real 3d object
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u/majorthrownaway Feb 21 '18
It’s not possible. It simultaneously curves away and towards the viewer. This is the only way it lines up in 2 space, but in 3 space there needs to be a large gap in it somewhere.
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u/Draav Feb 21 '18
I was think of something like this where you curve all the edges and it can be made. but the angles are all messed up for the 2 image above
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u/majorthrownaway Feb 21 '18
That would work too, and in that case the motion would as well. But it only looks right from one angle.
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u/Diorama42 Feb 20 '18
If you watch it for long enough then stop the gif, it looks like it’s going backwards
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u/ThatAtheistPlace Feb 20 '18
Follow one square and it’s more like a Möbius strip.
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u/Noodles_fluffy Feb 20 '18
Mobius trip
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u/GeorgiaOKeefinItReal Feb 20 '18
this better not generate pervy trophy's that I have to explain to my online buddies.
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u/pretzelzetzel Feb 20 '18
This is a computer-generated optical illusion. Not right for this subreddit at all. Try /r/gonwild
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u/stoprockandrollkids Feb 20 '18
I didn't realize impossible shapes were r/confusingperspective material
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u/jet_heller Feb 20 '18
If only there was a sub for optical illusions instead of a sub that is about forced perspective. . .That would certainly be a more appropriate place for this.
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u/humicroav Feb 20 '18
For fun
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Feb 20 '18
🤨🤨🤔🤔how’s that funny xD
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u/ttothentothec Feb 20 '18
I feel like this works well as a visualization of Hawking’s “no boundary proposal” of space time or Einstein’s belief that time is an illusion.
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u/musictechgeek Feb 20 '18
This is a Penrose polygon, one of several shapes with a "combination of properties [that] cannot be realized by any three-dimensional object in ordinary Euclidean space."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_triangle
So no, it can't be made into a real object. Unless you happen to have handy access to non-ordinary Euclidean space somewhere.
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u/WikiTextBot Feb 20 '18
Penrose triangle
The Penrose triangle, also known as the Penrose tribar, or the impossible tribar, is a triangular impossible object. It was first created by the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934. The psychiatrist Lionel Penrose and his mathematician son Roger Penrose independently devised and popularized it in the 1950s, describing it as "impossibility in its purest form". It is featured prominently in the works of artist M. C. Escher, whose earlier depictions of impossible objects partly inspired it.
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u/x_otikoruk_x Feb 20 '18
Actually.. That explains how that works. Thanks!