Jason Mayoff, Zachary Burgeson and Eric Cole liked this video so much that all of them un-connectedly submitted it for me to publish on Mighty Optical Illusions homepage. I am really puzzled with this one. I browsed the web for explanation, and almost everywhere people said that the fluid this guy is purring is just an ordinary water. I wouldn’t bet my allowance on it.
Allrighty then, I’ll let you smart-asses figure this one for yourselves, since I really don’t have a clue. Can we solve it together? In the past, I believe we managed to solve every single puzzle on this website. I hope that the tradition won’t be stopped today. This is more of a magic trick than optical illusion, but when we solve it, maybe I’ll change my statement. For more illusionary videos, be sure to jump to our videos section. Now employ your gray brain cells, and start thinking!
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look at seconds 42-45.
Watch for the splash.
Ya this was a featured video on Youtube a few days ago. I said to myself, maybe I should submit it to moillusions! But I realized that in no time at all you would have it on. Oh well, ya, everyone is right about there already being water in the glasses!
P.S. thank’s for taking away all that “first post” stuff it was getting anoying!
The last glass has 1/4 the volume of the first???
i no how he did it he had special powder stuff in each glass and when he poured the water in it fizzed up so he made it look like he was doing magic!!!haha i bet u
Option 1. Water in glasses.
There is no water already in the glasses. Check the reflections in the glasses. BUSTED
Option 2. Special made barriers
If there are barriers, you have to turn 180 degrees. This is not happening. BUSTED
Option 3. This is a videotrick.
Watch the blurs on the “empty” space, when the glasses a lifted. After the glass is replaced, it moves in the next shot without touching it. obviously it is a videotrick. In space of the blur, theres is an extra reservoir placed to add extra liquid. PROBLEM SOLVED.
Going back to the first comment, there is some water in the ‘empty’ glasses, and if you pay attention you will see that the fluid getts clearer towards the end vs at the begining it looked like milk
This is so easy it is ridiculous.
Note a few things:
First, the glasses are not see through.
Second, there’s so much spillage.
Third, until just the last second or two, the previous glass is pouring just at the edge of the next glass. When it is finally poured towards the center, notice how quick it fills up.
The logical and only conclusion, there is an object in the center of the glass. This mandates pouring between this object and the side of the glass. (Of course it only goes 3/4 way up which enables normal pouring the last second or so)
This explains the spillage and everything else. Watch it again- you’ll see.
if you check at 00:16 or 00:17, you can clearly see the tube in the second glass. and between 00:33 and 00:34, check out the reflection of his arm and you can see the tube in the largest glass. it’s kinda easy to see the tubes once you know they’re there.
Hot water and a column of ice in the middle of the glasses….
Yer, go ribbed! That it! he’s got it
Can you see on the second go, how carefully he fills the bigger ones, but then at the last one, he just chucks it in with one hand, this is cos, like ribbeed sais, he doesn’t get any liquid in the middle, but in the little one, there’s no tube in the middle.
There is NO tube in the glasses, but there IS some water in the glasses. The solution in the first glass is water and Sodium Polyacrylate Crystals (The absorbant material found in disposable diapers). There needs to be some water in each glass (which is somewhat hidden by the textured glass – you are not supposed to see it) because when he pours the solution into each larger glass, the polymer absorbs the water and swells, creating a gel, thus making it look like there is more solution in each larger glass. Nice illusion.
I agree with texas roadhouse …most definatly…
cheater he put water in the glasses
:(
It is nothing to do with water already in the glasses… each glass is designed like a glass-inside-a-glass… When he intially fills the glasses working upwards, notice how he very carefully pours very near to the edge/rim – this means the liquid goes on the *outside* of the ‘inner’ glass – i.e. it is in a very small space between the outer and inner glasses – this fills quickly. The funny pattern on the glasses hides this.
If you look pause it at the right moment, you can see the milk going into the water and it looks very dilute. You have to pause it just right though,
I think there was water in the cups, that added to the white stuff, and that’s why it got clearer.
This is what happens. it has a small amount of powder called water gell. its found in diapers if u want to try the trick.when u pour liquid onto it it expand making it seem like theres more milk.
magician’s double walled trick glasses, you just pour the liquid into the inner rim and it looks like its full. if you filmed from the top it would look mostly empty
There are clear cylinders in the glasses. You can see him specifically pour the substance close to the edge of the glass to avoid hitting the cylinder in the middle (which would expose the fact that they existed). However, he gets sloppy towards the end and with the final glass he hits the cylinder.
The idea behind the cylinder of course, is that the cylinder takes up space and therefore the glass holds less around the outside of the cylinder (which is where he pours it).
I definitely agree with Ribbed’s conclusion #14, as well as a few others. If you look really closely, there are a few close.
As Ribbed mentioned, at the end of pour #2, you can barely makout a cylinder inside the glass.
Also, at the very beginning of pour #3, watch very closely the bottom of glass #4 – you can see the liquid swirl around something, as if it was a toilet bowl. Yes, I realize simple physics can be causing it, but it seems a bit more exaggerated or pronounced than it would if nothing was there.
Also, at the end of some of the pours, you get the impression that more liquid is coming out that you would think. At first, I though this was clever editing. This most obvious at the end of pour 2 and 3. Oh my, where did all that extra liquid come from?
two people are pouring liquid
you just don’t see the other person.
They are pouring above him, you really can see this when they get to the big glass when the person that is pouring above him missed the glass and the liquid goes all over table
This is an old trick:
The glasses are semi-opaque, but if you look carefully there is column running up the middle of each glass. The column in each larger glass already contains fluid, thus the reason the person is trying to pour along the edge of the glass when filling. A couple of times, especially in the largest glass, you can see he accidentally hits the column in the center with his pour and it splashes off of it.
Using a milky substance to begin with keeps the water from magnifying the column in the middle.
That is all there is to it.
Frank is indeed correct. By putting in a very small amount of Sodium Polycarbinate at the bottom of each glass, he can keep the water semi-soluble. That’s why the “milk” seems to get thicker with each successive glass.
Here’s what happens when you use a larger amount: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWaivm9XpNg
Water….
There may be a set of cones inside the cups. So when he pours it in the cups first he’s using the inside cone which uses more fluid. On the pour back from the biggest cup he’s pouring it on the outside cone which would have less space allowing the fluid to fill all the cups. That’s my guess
I think the first one was milk, and the biggest one was full of water. Each cup in between has a divider somewhere, so he isn’t really filling up the whole cup, just a fraction or side of one. The final one has water in it, which is why it gets so diluted at the end.
Another thing could be that he mixed water with white soap that formed very small bubbles, not noticable by the camera. That would also explane why it would get clearer with each pour, and that there were bubbles at the top.
Want to know what it really is, Copy/Paste this link
http://web.mac.com/gmanx/MOillusions_Private/Milk.html
if you look at the very end right when he’s pouring into the last cup you can see that there’s nothing in the cup…..well done mate well done.
i know how he did it he put water in each glass then poured the white stuff in there to make i loook like more after i saw this i tried it too it worked
THERE ARE CYLINDERS INSIDE THE LARGER GLASSES, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO DISPLACE THE WATER TO FILL TO THE TOP OF THE GLASSES
Yeah, you can see the water when he ends. Really simple.
a baking soda and water mixture in first glass plus a calculated amount of white vinegar in the bottom of each of the larger glasses to make it “foam” more each time.
great illusion.
I’m going to go with a water absorbing polymer, like you find in nappies. There is a little water in each glass, which gets absorbed, and the volume of the polymer increases.
The water already in each glass combined with the volume of the previous glass, does not make the total volume of the new one. The polymer swelling, makes up the rest.
Think of it like rice. Add a little water, and you get more volume than just the rice and water combined :)
this is another way have some water in the bottom of the glass then pour the white liquid they have different densitys the water has less density the the other that is the only thing that makes sense to me
How can there be a water in the bottom or polymer or anything like that when she poors it back from the large to the small…. the only solution is that the volume of these 4 glasses is all the same. different height different diameter. the tumbler size hold the same amount as the large one but has a different dimension but the same volume of water is there. This is the only explaination there is it has nothing to do with trickery just different dimensions of glasses.
Watch LAST GLASS being filled carefully. You can see the mistake when pouring the liquid. He accidently pours some in the hidden tube and you’ll see the tube fill with some white fluid before he finishes. Typical trick magicians use with trick devices. NOTING to do with density.
I think that there’s 2 illusions here, the 2nd and 3rd glasses got 1/5 of water, remenber 1/5 from the third would be like 1/4 from the second, and then in the last (biggest) glass you can see how the dyed water fall over a spacer!, it forms a cylinder un the middle! look carefully when this person pours it almost in the middle of the video, just after spoiling it!.
yes there is water inside , thats why just pure white glasses were NOT used. and if you notice closer the liquid gets runnier and runnier thus spilling on the last glass furter proving there is water in each glass before hand.
No no theres no water in any of the glasses. Just another glass. Because the glasses are blurry, you can’t see that each one has a smaller glass inside it. If you look at the last glass being filled, you can see it just spill over the top of the cup inside.
I’ve seen this trick done before, and it’s uber cool. But it is still a trick, and not really an optical illusion.
it is amateur….:-S
pause the video at the 38 second mark, you can see a plume of the milky fluid in what has to be water already present in the cup. Furthermore, you can see the water level. of clear water.
Notice this:
The first time around, he leaves all of the glasses on the table, being careful not to move any of them.
On the second time he picks up every glass before and while filling it.
SUSPICIOUS!
I agree with other posters; he had water in the glasses beforehand.
I think Joe is right. There is already some transparent liquid in the glasses, probably water.
I know there has already been lots of posts on this one.
As far as I can see, the theory about the glasses already having water in them is the right one.
I base this on two things
1. At the end the white liquid is less opaque, which would suggest dilution.
2. If you look at the largest glass really carefully you can actually see the water level in it and the dilution taking place as it’s poured.
Each Glass has the exact same amount of fluid as the 1st. little glass. The others have clear dividers going down the center, pouring the liquid, it’s poured in front of the divider. Each glass’ divider gets closer to the front… so it takes the same amount of liquid to fill the bigger glasses.
TA DA!
There sint water or any other liquid on the glasses, what there is, is a cilimdric form on each of the bigguer ones stealling space from the glasses, and therephore making the same amount of milk fill the void around it and making the glass seem filled.
example:
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Alright, I have the 100% correct solution. The theory that there is already water in the glasses ahead of time is correct. But, the theory of there being a cylinder in the middle of the glasses is correct too. Here's how it's done.
The cylinders in the glasses are hollow & filled with clear water. Notice as he pours, he pours around the cylinders, but as it gets to the top of the glasses, he is pouring on the cylinders & you can see them. Then, when he pours back into the smaller glasses, he pours around the cylinders again (so they can fill with less liquid). Notice too, he stops when it reaches the cylinder tops, so as not to have the liquid pour into them.
its obvious just becoz there smaller doesnt mean they are the same wideness lol it took me a wile until i had a science lesson about optical illusions and this came up.