X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,ef7a01654d0a7e04 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Jason Arends Subject: Re: Simply illusions Date: 1997/12/12 Message-ID: <3491A4F1.2C8371EE@cedarnet.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 297747522 Organization: UnderWare Inc. Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art I'm gonna have to agree, it is impossible, unless you figure out some way to warp space/time.... btw, i've seen this big one and I think it makes it even more clear that objects don't act this way in real space. ______ /\ \ / \ \ / \_____\ _\ / ____/_ /\ \ / /\ \ / \ \/_/ \ \ / \__/ \_____\ _\ / \ / ____/_ /\ \ / \ / /\ \ / \ \/_____/\/_/ \ \ / \_____\ / \_____\ _\ / / \ / ____/_ /\ \ / / \ / /\ \ / \ \/_____/ \/_/ \ \ / \_____\ / \_____\ _\ / / \ / ____/_ /\ \ / / \ / /\ \ / \ \/_____/ \/_/ \ \ -axiac / \_____\ / \_____\ _\ / /_ ______ ______ _\____/ ____/_ /\ \ / / \/\ \/\ \/\ \/\ \ / \ \/_____/ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ / \_____\ \_____\ \_____\ \_____\ \_____\ \_____\ \ / / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / / \/_____/\/_____/\/_____/\/_____/\/_____/\/_____/ I've seen illusions where it looks like it is real, but one side comes toward the viewer, and the other goes away, but they line up just right when viewed from the front. There are pictures on a web site somewhere where people have made them, and take pictures from the front, then show how they did it from the side. i don't remember where it was, but i think i searched altavista.digital.com with "impossible object" also i have a nice little one in my sig... Paul Wilkins wrote: > > 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 -- __ / /\ / / \ jason arends / / /\ \ arends @ cns.uni.edu / / /\ \ \ www.math.uni.edu/~arends / /_/__\ \ \ /________\ \ \ \___________\/