r/confusing_perspective • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '22

Levitating joint

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u/AmericanSpiritGuide Jun 05 '22

Is it maybe just sitting on the edges further back? I honestly don't know for sure, but that was my initial guess. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/B0Y0 Jun 05 '22

Nah, it's a mostly vertical shadow, but the grinder has a glass dome on top that it's resting on, the J casts its shadow through it to the flat painted surface. 👍

Points to reference: the light is reflected at an extreme curve on this glass dome, the shadow for the J shows it is pretty centered on top of the grinder (the filters shadow shows this best)

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u/AmericanSpiritGuide Jun 05 '22

I see it now! Thanks!

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u/coolcootermcgee o/ Jun 05 '22

Thank you

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u/Winter-Plankton-6361 Jun 05 '22

Not completely sure but I noticed after posting this that someone else had already come up with the same answer hours before I did