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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Bic on November 25, 2016, 11:30:22 AM

Title: Here's a weird little video....
Post by: Bic on November 25, 2016, 11:30:22 AM

You figure it out :(

http://www.bitoffun.com/video_vault/escherian-stairwell.htm

Title: Re: Here's a weird little video....
Post by: crusader rabbit on November 25, 2016, 12:43:29 PM

Sorry to "wet blanket" this but there's not much to figure out, really. 

Clever camera angles, good editing, and a gullible public is all that's required.  This particular video was part of a series put out by the Rochester Institute of Technology to promote interest in "scientific" weirdness in hopes it would pique an interest in real science. 

The so-called Escherian staircase was named for a Dutch artist (Escher) who used clever shading and angles to draw plausible but impossible forms.  (See the Penrose Stairway and the Necker Cube as illustrations.)

It is simply a next step in graphic optical illusions.

Crusader Rabbit

Title: Re: Here's a weird little video....
Post by: Rastus on November 25, 2016, 12:55:18 PM

That was just plain mean Bic.  Here I was still runnin' over with turkey and other goodies...just got into the apple pie again and voila'...consternation.

Mean.  Just plain old mean.  Made me hurt my head....

Title: Re: Here's a weird little video....
Post by: Big Frank on November 25, 2016, 03:09:47 PM

I have a book or two of Escher's art and know how the stairway works and that isn't it. http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/escherian.asp

Title: Re: Here's a weird little video....
Post by: Ichiban on November 25, 2016, 05:03:02 PM

(http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/60/60cb1c8bf0b83547ce480ce1d6388803be6b54d17dd2b854f59008513b625e55.jpg)