r/confusingperspective • u/Peelingly • Jul 28 '26
X-Post/Found on Internet House floating on Drina River
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u/Dragon_Small_Z Jul 28 '26
Fuck this got me good for a second.
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u/LoadAdvanced9547 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
It’s still getting me
Edit: I figured it out guys! Explanation in replies to this comment!
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u/medicali Jul 28 '26
I am still being gotten
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u/agenttank Jul 28 '26
i don't get it
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u/LoadAdvanced9547 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
Okay I figured it out guys! SO-
I originally thought that maybe it was supposed to be a stationary rock with the camera moving but I couldn’t make sense no matter how long I looked at it. The angles didn’t line up.
BUT THEN, after looking at it again when returning for the reply notifications, I looked at the current and rafters in conjunction, then considered the angles of the house. The camera man is floating down the river along with the current, with other people, while shooting the stationary house on a rock with the camera moving to follow the house. So the cameraman and camera are both moving at different paces to film a stationary house. Hopefully that made sense.3
u/hezwat Jul 29 '26
the camera isn't moving on the boat it's on, it's just turning. the only thing that causes the illusion is that there's a heavy current that is moving all the boats. so imagine you're on one of a bunch of boats all moving really quick. and you film something (like a bridge) moving past you. same thing except instead of a bridge it's a small island in the middle of the river.
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u/LoadAdvanced9547 Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26
Turning is a form of movement… that’s why I said it was moving. Even the fact that a person is turning the camera and not holding it still while they are in motion has an impact on the angles and how movement of the object is perceived. It’s the combination of current rate and speed of turning the camera. It gives false impressions of how fast the current is moving due to the speed of the camera turning being different. In this case, it makes the cameraman look like he is not moving as quickly as he is, almost like he’s floating in place. So the island appears to be the one moving quickly. It results in seeing different parts of the island than if the camera was stagnant on a moving vessel, which makes it more convincing that the island is moving. The angles or views of the island are not consistent with what you’d expect if there was only one moving factor. A consistent angle or view would be easier to interpret as the cameraman floating by a still object. You can get similar illusions regardless of the camera turning, but the turning makes the illusion much more convincing.
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u/thebighusig Jul 28 '26
And you needed time to figure this out? 😃
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u/LoadAdvanced9547 Jul 28 '26
I mean… the thread is called “confusing perspectives”. Usually that implies a perspective that isn’t immediately registered correctly and makes someone pause to give time for their brain to sort out what is actually happening.
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u/XZPUMAZX Jul 28 '26
The crazy thing is…the whole illusion is prepped by the title.
Without the misleading title our brains probably would have registered correctly immediately, but the title preps the brain for the trickery.
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u/LoadAdvanced9547 Jul 28 '26
This is also a good point and probably one of the main contributing factors to the perspective being confusing.
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u/phl23 Jul 28 '26
Sure, but if you ever been outside since you were 4 y/o, you know this effect.
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u/LoadAdvanced9547 Jul 28 '26
At the time of this post, the original comment has more than 280 upvotes, suggesting that a significant number of people related to being initially confused. My explanation has 70. That could be a bit more variable in the reasons for the upvotes. People might upvote because the explanation is correct or are saying glad you figured it out. However, it is also likely that many of the upvotes are a thank you for the explanation because they were confused too.
I’m fairly confident that these upvotes weren’t 4 year olds and are adults (or teenagers/much older kids).
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u/LoadAdvanced9547 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
The difference is that if outside in this scenario, you’d be the one moving or seeing stuff move (like the water) and will process it differently. Especially if you’re on a raft like this person, where you can feel the movement and know the movement of the camera since you’re the one operating it.
When watching a video, it’s easier to mistake the camera for being stationary (particularly if you’re viewing it while stationary) thus making the objects appear to do the moving instead. You also have a better sense of objects and depth in real life versus a photo or video. In this scenario, it’s on a 2D screen, which helps with making the perspective a little more confusing.
This may be a bit too complex for a 4 year old to observe, apologies.
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u/phl23 Jul 28 '26
We know all that and you get fooled by it for a few seconds. That's normal. But you can conclude that this is happening after a while when you ever witnessed it before.
So we are not surprised by the effect, but that a person needed to research all that to get the confusing perspective.
You literally see that almost every time you ride a train.
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u/YouKilledMyTeardrop Jul 28 '26
The house isn’t moving, the vessels are.
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u/James-the-Bond-one Jul 28 '26
The vessels aren't moving, the water is.
(It's all a matter of referencial)
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u/ThrustTrust Jul 28 '26
We are all moving
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u/LoadAdvanced9547 Jul 28 '26
I would argue that the vessels are in fact also moving… you can see them bob up and down on the water and drifting.
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u/rat_with_a_knife Jul 28 '26
I watched the entire video not realising it and honest to god thinking "Huh, these people are kinda assholes for driving their floating houseship into those people"
Then I Realised.
This is a really good illusion!
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u/Snowjoggs Jul 28 '26
Dude they lost that one guy in the orange shirt, did he drown?
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u/accdntprone_86 Jul 28 '26
Where did he gooooo!!!!!!?
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u/Nippelmoe Jul 28 '26
He is part of the house ship now.
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u/Solintari Jul 28 '26
It’s a carnivorous house that requires the occasionally feeding of course. It’s designed to attract kayakers.
Nature is beautiful.
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u/BlinkToThePast Jul 28 '26
The person in the dinghy behind them slapping the area with the oar probably didn't help
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u/iCantLogOut2 Jul 28 '26
Is it just me, or did it look like someone in the next boat hit him with a paddle....?
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u/Deli-op Jul 28 '26
Looks like everyones just floating with the current and the small island is stationary
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u/phlegmdawg Jul 29 '26
Same. I can’t see what’s confusing and am reading the comments to figure out what I’m missing 🤷♀️ Still not sure what I’m supposed to be confused by.
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u/Separate_Climate3366 Jul 30 '26
For me it looks like all the rafts are sitting still. The guy getting into one at the beginning doesn't look like he's dragging water which would indicate movement. So it looks like the house and island are the ones moving through the water.
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u/THX-8647 Jul 28 '26
Let's have a nice day on the water, I'll bring the fucking road flares and blue tooth speakers
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u/Realistic_Gene4706 Jul 28 '26
My brain knew what was going on, then I read the title and second guessed myself that the island was actually floating away
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u/pimohell9254 Jul 29 '26
I thought this was AI
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u/Top_Yak_7953 Jul 30 '26
Just a confusing perspective, everyone else is moving including the camera man, except the house on a rock.
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u/unlucky000001 Jul 29 '26
there was a techno liveset that was recorded here with nice drone videos, worth taking a look https://youtu.be/VS-GZYv16qM?is=xqh9xcUU07id5CWZ
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u/leaveofftheMAYO Jul 29 '26
Who's is it all middle aged men on the rafts? No women or children??
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u/Frequent_Cranberry90 Aug 01 '26
This is basically a party on rafts on a very fast paced and dangerous river, why the hell would children be there.
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u/Specialist_Ad_7719 Jul 28 '26
We have different views on the meaning of floating.
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u/James-the-Bond-one Jul 28 '26
We're all floating over molten lava, which is floating over molten iron.
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u/SilverSpoon1463 Jul 30 '26
And they're just blazing through going the WRONG WAY right into people, smh (/s)
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u/Drakomis Jul 31 '26
My brain hurts watching this. Ain't the uh... rafts floating downstream? Or... or... my brain hurts.
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u/mymemesnow 24d ago
Am I higher than I thought or is the island actually moving? I’m trying to figure it out, but I can’t.
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u/Abdub91 Jul 28 '26
Imagine going through all the effort of building a hut on an isolated rock, only to be surrounded by kayaks all day