By Vurdlak on September 7, 2007, with 112 Comments
Whoaa! I think I would feel uncomfortable as well, if I found myself in similar situation. This Lego guy found himself in a surrounding, his poor little brain isn’t capable to understand. But we are much more experienced with optical illusions, aren’t we? This is piece of cake for a regular Mighty Illusions fan. Who’s gonna explain this illusion first? If you’re memory servers you well, you’ll remember we already had some lego illusions in the past, as well as similar impossible structures made of various materials. Which impossible structure was your favorite? Browse through dozens of them in appropriate category.
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Nice, I’ve built stuf like these before!
Well, I guess it’s that kind of construction that only works from that exact angle. I dont think the right corner is jointed.
The top beam is floating, not rested on the back pillar.
It looks like your standard perspective trick. The horizontal piece and the right pillar do not appear to actually touch, the pillar is behind the horizontal piece but the perspective hides that.
If you look at the second bump from the right on the horizontal piece you can see it ends just a little bit to the left of the of the pillar. If the two were connected the pillar would also have two bumps fitting into the horizontal piece and these two bumps should line up with the two bumps on the horizontal piece directly above them. This cannot be the case in this picture. Further, the right pillar is considerably narrower than the left pillar.
Actually, from the looks of things there is another block at the top of the right pillar that is mostly, but not completely, hidden by the horizontal piece. You can actually see the very bottom edge of it between the horizontal piece and the top fully visible block on the right pillar. So the photographer screwed up, he did not get the perspective perfect. It is only 3 or 4 pixels, but it is definitely there.
The vertical column in the back is not connected to the top crossbeam. The viewing perspective makes it appear so. It’s a pretty cool illusion, but done a lot. There are lots of statues that play with your depth perception like that.
Amazing! I can’t even see the photoshop lines!
hmm.. must be photoshopped somehow?
its really easy to see how they did it – look at the top right of the right-hand pillar and you can see the crossbar has been added on photoshop or something because it doesn’t align!! quite good editing though!
This is a “single perspective” illusion. Very effective and compelling if done correctly. In this case, the top Lego piece is attached to the front column. From the camera’s perspective it only looks as though it is resting atop the rear column.
I did a series of “sculptures” while an undergrad that relied on the same technique. I drove one professor close to physical conflict as I stood in a small room and moved my arm in and out of what appeared as an “impossible triangle” built out of 1″x1″ pine stock. His view was through a 1/4″ peep-hole behind a very heavy locked door. Being a physicist and mathematician (and a rather large former rugby player), he said it so disturbed him that he seriously almost broke the door down trying to get in in order to figure it out.
For those wishing to learn how to build this illusion out of almost anything, look up “A Simple Design For An Impossible Triangle,” Perception, 1979, vol. 8, pp. 349–350
omg! why so many people think they are too smart and hurry saying “photoshoped!!”.
It is NOT photoshoped, it’s just a camera angle trick, so please analyze the picture before rushing to answer.
Its easy. The top beam of legos aren’t attched to the other ones. It’s pretty obvious. I’m 11! Jeez
I love how comment # 77 says “1st comment,” but anyway, this is a cute illusion, though the camera angle trick seems pretty obvious. (Notice how the crossbeam is larger in height and the bumps are too big)
I don’t understand why you think you would need Photoshop??
The top bar in front of the guy is not attached to the pillar behind him.
well the top two bricks on the right side do not have a reflection on the side of them…therefore its photoshopped in
the top two bricks on the right column do not have a reflection on the side…therefore its photoshopped
I see what you did thar.
You shooped the whoop!
i want a lego man with that face!
HAHAHA! His body is reflected in the blocks on his left, but his face isnt!
Therefore- photoshopped.
easy. the in the back arent connected they just angeled the camera so the top of the lego in back lined up with the bottem of the lego on top
you can see that on the back pillar there is no reflexion of the black legos, but there is in the front
Woah weird very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very weird hmmmmm…………
just thinking!!!LOL
No photoshop necessary, just a camera, legos, and patience!
The hanging beam is attatched to the front column. The picture was taken from the right angle so that the beam appears to touch the back column, but if you click on the picture to see it close up you can see that the beam barely misses the back column due to its apparent size in perspective.
NO PHOTOSHOP.
The top beam is connected to the left, front column (funny its solid and not stacked legos like the back one).
The back stack of 5, yes five legos looks like it’s attached because of the angle the photo is taken from.
The beam just blocks out the 5th lego in the back so you don’t see the top.
I’d like to be able to have the patience to do something like that. Pretty awesome.
I know how to do it! You just make one pillar and stick a long lego on it. Then, Stick a pillar on space behind it and look at it at the right angle!
this one is easy guys its jus two sets of pillars. if you look at the lego that is supposed to be the top, that goes over the lego mans head, well if you look closely if you look close ly you can clearly see that the top lego (even tho looking like is it connected to th back pillar) it is not. dont beleive me look closer. the front pillar is one solid piece, while the back pillar is made up of 4 pieces (actually if you look closely its 5). this picture was shot at just the right angle to make to two pillars apper to be connected =)
I can do that in lego i just need few parts it quite easy i say
You are all wrong. Legos have some very little known qualities enabling humans to not only bend time and space, but also time and reality. It’s a really complex process. I know, I played a lot of Legos as a kid, and now spend hours with my two kids altering reality. We recently created (completely by accident) a black hole. We had meant to build a spy-agency-for-bad-guys, but after hours of piling black bricks, my 2 kids, I, and all the toys in the room go sucked in the spy agency, which collapsed on itself ending the size of a pin head. It was fun for a moment, but, even though I love my kids, there was not enough space for the 3 of us and all the compressed plastic trashy toys we have been collecting at birthdays. Our nervous wiggling paid off, and the black-hole-spy-agency-pin-head-size reversed its energy flow, resulting in a large bedroom explosion… Well, at least that’s how we explained the mess to my wife! ;)
It’s photoshop, no doubt
PHOTOSHOPPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Look at the top horizontal block and see that there is a gap of 3 blocks between the pillars,
look at the bottom black block and you will see theres a gap of 1
urgh……this doesnt look like a illusion it jst looks like a piece of lego tht some person made -.- the title ”imposible lego creation” i think thts possible to make instead :P