Introduction: Beyond Belief and Back (in 30 Secs.): an Optical Illusion
If you've never seen this illusion before, prepare to be thoroughly baffled! It appears to be absolutely impossible. Fret not, though, because this video contains sufficient proof of its validity. This is a re-created version of Roger Shepard's "Turning the Tables" illusion.
This visual phenomenon is taken to another level by drawing it, along with a cutout that "proves" it, and providing links to the same drawing and proof cutout that you see in the video. Feel free to use these items as guides for drawing it yourself, or just print them out to see that this unbelievable illusion is actually believable!
See/print the drawing:
https://www.instructables.com/files/orig/FA4/5593/FOHU2T5D/FA45593FOHU2T5D.pdf
See/print the proof cutout:
https://www.instructables.com/files/orig/FQ6/T577/FOHU2T5K/FQ6T577FOHU2T5K.pdf
See the formal, full Instructable:
https://www.instructables.com/id/Create_and_Prove_the_Most_Perplexing_Illusion_EVER/
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51 Comments
13 years ago on Introduction
Wow this is really cool! Congrats on your victory!
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
Thank you so much! If I'm right, you won too....CONGRATULATIONS!!! (now, I really hope I'm right :)
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
Yeah you're right ;)
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
'Magic With Fire'...I like it.
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
Thanks! I was going to call it "Matchstick Magic," but I thought that "Magic with Fire" sounded cooler and would hopefully attract a bit more attention! I like the "Beyond belief and back" title too!
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
Good titles are a vital part of the whole "packaging" of a video. 'Magic with Fire' is so much better than 'Matchstick Magic', in my opinion, because it is more mysterious :)
14 years ago on Introduction
The video was well done and the extra links for the drawings where a nice touch but BAFFLED I was not!
14 years ago on Introduction
i dont believe this.its all done with mirrors & bits of string i think i saw a waft of smoke there as well
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
Wow, you are good.
14 years ago on Introduction
Just goes to show that we can't trust our eyes 100%
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
You can trust your eyes. You can't trust your brain. PS: this is a cool illusion. I had to do something similar to what it's done in the video the first time i saw it.
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
There are lots of illusions that rely on you being unable to trust your eyes themselves (like the animation of the purple dot disappearing around a circle, and when you stare it fades the purple (eye response) and the dot looks 'green'.)
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
Ok. So then, you can't trust your eyes nor your brain. I agree. There's also the one about the dot dissapearing because of that blind spot in the eye. Who said the human body was a perfect machine?
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
That spot is where all the individual nerves coalesce to form your optic nerve. Since they're there, there can't be any sensory nerve endings. Crazy? Yes. Awesome? Abso-frickin'-lutely.
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
Retinal lusciousness :)
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
davinci?
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
*Hearty laugh*
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
Now I'm lost.
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
google vitruvian man. the 'perfect man'...
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
I do know Vitruvian man. Aaaaaaaanyway, this is getting too far!!