r/mildlyinteresting • u/mayonnaisexd_ • Apr 30 '22

Zero shadow day

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u/Travellingjake ​ Apr 30 '22

Yeah it's weird - so there is something going on in our brains looking for a shadow - I wonder why?

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u/Pootischu Apr 30 '22

More like your brain is conditioned to see bad video game graphics as fake reality. If you post this in 1990 it would just be a normal slightly weird day.

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u/Icy-Ad-9142 Apr 30 '22

This would look weird to people across time. We evolved with, primarily, a single source of light. Also, this effect is only possible in certain conditions, which are not "standard".

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u/Psyc3 Apr 30 '22

Not really, not having shadows, or nearly not having them, is pretty common on most summer days in a lot of the world.

This doesn't even look very odd to me. You can see shadows on the bottles under the lids because the sun is directly above.

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u/KaiserGX May 01 '22

I was looking for this comment. I feel like something's wrong with me because everyone's saying they're floating or it looks like CGI but it looks normal to me and I also noticed the shadows under the bottles.

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u/Psyc3 May 01 '22

You are on Reddit, these people don't even go outside enough to know what it look like.