August 11, 2012 - Cartoon from Space?

CaliforniaMama · 08-11-2012, 12:38 PM

Imagine you are hiking along, headed up a hill and
when you look up you see a gigantic tissue floating
to the ground.

You close your eyes and shake your head, but when you
open them again it is still there, floating . . .

Wait, this can't be real. It certainly doesn't look real.
It looks like a drawing. How can a drawing be sitting
at top of the hill?

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As you approach, you realize it is made of metal.
It's a sculpture, made of welded and painted steel that
looks like a two dimensional cartoon drawing of a three
dimensional piece of paper ... that is three dimensional
if you get close, but looks two dimensional if you stay
at the bottom of the hill...

Well, wasn't that a nice little mind trip?

Thanks to ZenGum for sharing this post from NPR's Krulwich Wonders blog.

Images and info taken from The Art of the Illusion which

Quote:

Presents over two hundred optical illusions that defy reality, featuring works by M.C. Escher, as well as pieces from Octavio Ocampo, Rob Gonsalves, and Andre Martins de Barros.

(want want want want want want)

DanaC · 08-11-2012, 12:50 PM

That's fucking brilliant.

Griff · 08-11-2012, 01:03 PM

Nice brain bender 3D as 2D.

SPUCK · 08-12-2012, 04:56 AM

That tears it..

Sundae · 08-12-2012, 10:20 AM

Just FTR - this is in New Zealand.
Also known as that little place close to Australia where Lord of the Rings was filmed.

SPUCK · 08-13-2012, 05:37 AM

Lord of what?

Griff · 08-13-2012, 12:08 PM

08-11-2012, 01:03 PM	#3
Griff Hill-Biffy or HillWilliam Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 16,939	Nice brain bender 3D as 2D. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis ...how easily the learned give up the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of ideas in their imagination. - Adam Smith

08-12-2012, 10:20 AM	#5
Sundae Co-Strawberry Festival Queen Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ye Olde Englande Posts: 20,302	Just FTR - this is in New Zealand. Also known as that little place close to Australia where Lord of the Rings was filmed. __________________ none thought of the others they would never meet, or how their lives would all contain this hour

08-13-2012, 12:08 PM	#7
Griff Hill-Biffy or HillWilliam Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 16,939	__________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis ...how easily the learned give up the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of ideas in their imagination. - Adam Smith

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SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,557	That tears it..

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SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,557	Lord of what?

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