X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,ef7a01654d0a7e04 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: "Paul Wilkins" Subject: Re: Simply illusions Date: 1997/12/12 Message-ID: <66rn62$5ci$1@wolfman.xtra.co.nz>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 297578233 References: <66bllo$fvj@newstoo.ericsson.se> <3489A50A.3628@slip.net> <3489CE22.5731@mpq.mpg.de> <3489E18E.4B0B@slip.net> <3489EB19.5413@mpq.mpg.de> <348A176F.1792@slip.net> <348B86B7.41C67EA6@on.spammer> <348C2498.6131@mpq.mpg.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.2039.0 Organization: Customer of Telecom Internet Services Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Carl R. White wrote in message ... >On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Andreas Freise wrote: > >> NOTE : This so-called impossible triangle >> _____ >> / /\ >> / / \ >> / / \ >> / / /\ \ >> / / / \ \ >> / / /\ \ \ >> / / / \ \ \ >> / /__/____\ \ \ >> / \ \ \ >> /________________\ \ \ >> \_____________________\ / Jugg and Grim >> > >I've been thinking for around two years about this one, and I think it is >a semi-possibility... Nice diagram you have there, but the figure itself is truely impossible. Look at the base of the triangle. The left side is going away into the distance, and the right side is moving forwards, yet they both meet together even though they start from the same plane. Also, If it was indeed possible to be made from one joined piece then people would have been selling it as a curiosity. Paul Wilkins