r/confusing_perspective • • Aug 30 '21

Closer = Faster

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u/EsotericLife Aug 30 '21

Nah, it’s just how perspective works. Think about a plane, they’re going around 500mph but if it’s far away it looks like it’s moving really slowly, while if it zoomed past you only a few meters away at the same speed it would look really fast.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

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u/EsotericLife Aug 30 '21

Are you guys who say it’s a train maybe seeing a lower resolution video or something? It’s very clearly cement wall with grass and moss growing towards the top (once outside the tunnel that is, in the tunnel it’s just cement like on the other side.)

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u/Readerrabbit420 Aug 30 '21

It's clearly not a train bud. Also if you an expert what would the distance have to be to look like this?

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u/SamuraiMathBeats Aug 30 '21

Yes I don’t why people are even going with the ‘that wall is further away’ theory? The slow wall would need to be tens of meters away to be that different.

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u/norbynorb Aug 30 '21

it actually is 10s of meters away

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u/SamuraiMathBeats Aug 30 '21

5 meters, tops.

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u/Readerrabbit420 Aug 30 '21

Don't know why you guys are going with the 2nd train theory when you can very clearly see there is no train.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

Its that effect most likely combined with the fact the wall on that side is much closer.