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LEGO Illusion: Poor Minifig Gets Escher’D
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May 26th, 2010
M.C. Escher approves of this pic.
The photo was taken by PBase user bbzippo way back in 2004, and won 4th place in the PBase forum’s Illusion challenge. I think it’s been Photoshopped – there’s something weird going on in the edge of the crossbar, right on top of the right post. But that’s just me.
How do you think he did it?
[PBase via Mighty Optical Illusions]
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i think he photoshopped it aswell because there is no way lego can doo tht
I don’t think that it’s Photoshopped.
I think that the top brick is only on the left column and that it was made to look like it was also on the right column by the angle of the picture.
It looks like there’s a fifth brick on the right column that is mostly obscured by the top brick. He left the bottom fifth brick barely in view so that it would make it look like it was the top brick that was connected.
Oh right! I see it now. So that’s why the bottom of the top brick isn’t aligned with the top of the right post. Nice.
pretty easy feat to accomplish. 2 things give away the location of the lintel. first, it’s shadow is clearly seen falling on the left post. second, if you look closely at the 2 studs at the far right of the lintel, you can see that they are actually too wide for the post below them. this is a perspective effect caused by their closer proximity to the camera than the post.
from above, it would look like
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| o |
| o |
| o—- |
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and simply taken from an angle such that the lentil lines up with the rear post
the reason it would need pshoping is because the depth of the lintel would be greater than the depth of the rear post for the same reasons it’s studs are larger.
gah, it removed my white space
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|….o|
|..o..|
|o——|
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actually upon closer inspection, i think you can actually see the difference in width, it is just a pretty small effect (but it does give it that slightly janky look at a distance). ashley may also be onto something with her 5th brick on the grassy knoll theory…
i have seen a few of these, they are real, not photo shopped. it’a all about lighting as you take the picture
like check this one out http://bit.ly/5MeaL4