X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,cb9b84db809e750 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine Subject: Re: Illusions and impossible things :) Date: 1997/10/26 Message-ID: X-Deja-AN: 285074515 Distribution: world X-NNTP-Posting-Host: xemu.demon.co.uk [158.152.196.209] References: <344EAAA3.41C6@comports.com> <6bJDdEANemU0Ewui@tomh.demon.co.uk> Organization: 1st Canine Chapel of Bob Dobbs Dog (Church of the SubGenius) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art In article <6bJDdEANemU0Ewui@tomh.demon.co.uk>, Tom Harvey writes: >In article , Dave Bird---St Hippo of >Augustine writes >>>>> Y________ >>>>> /\ . \ >>>>> / \.......\ >>>>> / \(3). \ >>>>> / \___.___\X >>>>> \ / / >>>>> ___\ / ____/___ >>>>> /\ \ / /\ . \ >>>>> / \...\/___/ \.......\ >>>>> / \(1). \ \(2). \ >>>>> / \___.___\ \___.___\ >>>>> \ / / / / >>>>> \ / / / / >>>>> \ / /\ / / >>>>> \/_______/ \/_______/ 'logicko' >>>>> Z >>>> >>>>what so impossible about this, >>>>it looks like 3 cube >>>>looks like cube 1 place on top of cube 2 cover a corner of cube2 >>>>and cube 3 place on top the side of it >>>> >>>The bottom of cubes 1 and 2 are in line. The top of cube 1, however, is >>>further back (being behind cube 3) than the top of cube 2, even though >>>they appear to be balanced at the same angle. >> >>I cannot make head or tail of what you are saying. Probably because >>your assignment of "top", "bottom", "front", "back" is unclear. > >Reading it again, I can see I haven't been very clear. I will try and >explain myself below. > >>Let's look at the thing in the XY plane: >> >> X >> |________________ >> z=2.0/| : |z=2.0 >> / | : | So, er, >> z=1.5/ | : | what's the problem? >> /' |-------+-------| >> z=1.0/ : '| : | >> | :' | : | >> | ' |_______:_______|__________Y >> ________|': / . /z=2.0 >> z=1.0/| | :/........________/________ >> / | | / /| : |z=1.5 >>z=0.5/ |.......|/_______/ | : | >> /: '| : : | : | >>z=0/ :' | : : |........;........| >> | ' | : : '| : | >> |': |_______:_______:' | : | >> | : / . /: | : | >> | '/.......,......./ : |________:________|z=1.5 >> | / . /| : / . / >> |/_______._______/ | '/........,........./z=1.5 >> / | / . / >> Z |/________._________/z=0.5 >> > >No, you've changed the picture now. This one clearly is possible, the >shape that the original poster was trying to represent (even though it >became ambiguous when translated into ascii) wasn't. > >You have placed the furthermost surfaces of blocks 1 and 2 on different >planes, at z=0 and z=0.5. The origanal was supposed to have them both at >z=0, making it impossible. Something like this: > > ________ z=2.5 > /\ \ \ > z=2 / \ \ \ > / \ \ \ > / 3 \_ _\ \ > /\ /\ /\ These should be in the same plane! > z=1 /_ / \_ _\ \ > /\ / /\ \ \ > / \/__ \ \ \ > / / \ \ \ > z=0 / \/______\___\_______\ z=1 > \ / / / / > \ / / > \ / 1 2 / > z=0 \/_______/__\/_______/ z=0 > > > >Is that a clearer explanation? ;-) So you mean it is supposed to be like this---? >>>>> Y________ >>>>> /\ . \ >>>>> / \.......\ >>>>> / \(3). \ >>>>> / \___.___\X >>>>> \ /\ /\ >>>>> ___\ / \____/__\ >>>>> /\ \ / /\ . \ >>>>> / \...\/___/ \.......\ >>>>> / \(1). \ \(2). \ >>>>> / \___.___\ \___.___\ >>>>> \ / / / / >>>>> \ / / / / >>>>> \ / /\ / / >>>>> \/_______/ \/_______/ 'logicko' >>>>> Z Yes, if (2) and (3) are supposed to be at the same Z-height [is this what you are saying?] then it is clearly impossible. |~/ |~/ ~~|;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;||';-._.-;'^';||_.-;'^'0-|~~ P | Woof Woof, Glug Glug ||____________|| 0 | P O | Who Drowned the Judge's Dog? | . . . . . . . '----. 0 | O O | answers on *---|_______________ @__o0 | O L |{a href="news:alt.religion.scientology"}{/a}_____________|/_______| L and{a href="http://www.xemu.demon.co.uk/clam/lynx/q0.html"}{/a}XemuSP4(:)