side by side???

    Idea: a drawning of Bruno Ernst.
    Ernst is the dutch biographer of M.C. Escher.

    Comments and faves

    1. InNaturalLight, stuant63, greggorievich, andrejj, and 122 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. ...Miguel... [deleted] (38 months ago | reply)

      Great!!!

    3. stuant63 (33 months ago | reply)

      This is great stuff. But my brain hurts now...

    4. greggorievich (32 months ago | reply)

      how did...
      that's brilliant!
      is that some kind of photoshop, or a camera trick?

    5. Gem Trem (31 months ago | reply)

      very cool tho headache inducing

    6. nutterguy (28 months ago | reply)

      Excellent, got to be photoshop though.

    7. GOONSS (28 months ago | reply)

      Photoshoppppp

    8. jbrumder (28 months ago | reply)

      It's not a photoshop

    9. CzechR (28 months ago | reply)

      Great! :-)

    10. bigpresh (28 months ago | reply)

      Heh, clever trick :)

    11. oakraidr (28 months ago | reply)

      HUH,,, WHAT....

      i NEED TO TAKE A NAP

    12. anderspace (28 months ago | reply)

      Excellent!

    13. ASHarwood (28 months ago | reply)

      uh you have officially blown up my mind....literally. I would post a pic of my mind exploding on flickr, but i can't.

    14. epSos.de (28 months ago | reply)

      Shadow trick ?

    15. Jeffrey (28 months ago | reply)

      AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    16. nyvi_72 (28 months ago | reply)

      Not a photoshop, but brilliantly executed. Hint: the grain patterns on the "bottom" piece don't match from one face to the next. It's easier to see if you rotate the picture 90 degrees.

    17. Zibri (28 months ago | reply)

      M.C. Escher would be proud :D

    18. fezpp (28 months ago | reply)

      It's a great effect. I think it's two pieces of wood stacked vertically with a bit of shading on one face. The lengths of the pieces are key and the screws add to the effect.

      www.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?e2ff23d643 .png

      My only suspicion of "trickery" is whether this is a photo of the hand on a photo of the original model?!

    19. bjordan_CA (28 months ago | reply)

      Very cool! I'll have to try something like this. Here's my guess at how it's' done: i48.tinypic.com/e5so40.jpg

    20. Cannikin (28 months ago | reply)

      Looks like someone figured it out and built their own:

      www.flickr.com/photos/eqrunner/4343611143

    21. robswindowcleaning (28 months ago | reply)

      Sweet optical delusion! ;-)

    22. oakraidr (28 months ago | reply)

      Not everything has to be answered. just enjoy the photo/illusion

    23. samu.zamu (28 months ago | reply)

      Genius!!!

    24. Werner Kunz (28 months ago | reply)

      never seen it as a photo. Great !!!

    25. Bob_Lambs_photography (28 months ago | reply)

      Great illusion. I'm surprised so many people said "Photoshop" I guess they don't know much about Photoshop.

    26. <pyrE> (28 months ago | reply)

      The "back/top" piece is a normally shaped piece of wood.

      The "front/bottom" piece has been substantially hollowed in back, given a ramp sloping down from front to back for the other piece to rest on, and a front wall and roof very very thin at the closest point to camera, so the "roof" can be peeled up to appear the "wall" of the upper piece (note the black line of the join).

      The screws may actually hold the pieces together, but quite possibly there's careful gluing in there too. Do the fingers hide a glitch?

    27. Rasmus Bidstrup (27 months ago | reply)

      Great illusion, good job

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