you can tell that the top beam is not attached to the rest, it doesnt realy match

if you look at the bricks on the right, second one down, you can see the edge sticks out a bit where it was photoshoped together. Nice illusion though.

Nice Illusion!

great stuff, !

Wow, Loved the LEGO twist on the usual building illusion, I don't really care how easy it was to put together with photoshop or whatever, the render is cool and the kid in me loved the idea, plus the face of the kfc Lego guy is wicked... keep'em coming. good work

really not that bad an illusion (reminds me of my earlier days). The shadow on the right side of the left pillar is fake...so is the transition of the left pillar to the top bar

That's the way I see it, since all other shadows and refelctions seem to be correct. What do you guys think?

Wow, alot of these illusions are terrible lately

Cooooool !!

Ah the simple ones are always the best. Its all to do with the camera angle at which the picture is taken. it has been built with one "tower" at the back and the other "tower" at the front with a beam on it so that when you take the photo from a certain angle it tlooks like they're joined together

i think the columns are put there in real life, and the connecting bar is photo shopped.

Photoshopped! pretty bad work, though!

I can see a slight discrepancy on the left tower between the top block and the top 2x1. Very good nonetheless.

Excuse my poor english...

1) The horizontal "8pin" piece is on top of the front column and NOT on top of the back one.
2) The picture is taken from a high angle (30° more or less) so that it gives the illusion that the line of the lower side of the horizontal piece SEEMS to collide with the upper line of the 4th brick in the back column... but in fact it does not perfectly:
3) If you take a very close look at the "coinciding" lines you'll see they DON'T coincide: the extreme lower-right angle of the horizontal piece looks a little bit "more in foreground" than the upper-right angle of the 4th brick, AND you can see both the lower line of the "8pins" piece and the junction line between the 4th brick and a hidden 5th in the back column...

I hope I've been clean enough,
and I hope I caught the right explanation...

haha simple but still cool

Nice, but nothing to get uncomfortable about.

Actually the Lego guy doesn't even notice that the structure would be impossible in any way: He sees just a beam on top of a column in front of him, and a separate column behind him. Not connected in any way.

By the use of cunning camera positioning the cameraman has aligned the horizontal beam over the back column. - Just wait a second: he hasn't really: Notice how you can see just a thin slice of the topmost lego cube of the back column peeping under the horizontal beam.

Hiya!
Yay I think this is first comment!!
Cool, that puzzeled me at fisrt, but then I remembered, is is something to do with the camera angle? DON'T READ ON IF U DON'T WANT TO KNOW THE ANSWER! The top of the bridge isactually 2 different bits, but it is taken like they are one. Is that right?? =S

this is a sweet illusion. i have seen others from your website adn I think that the way the photo was taken so it looked liked to beam is connected to the part in teh back. But it is really just hovering in the air?

Brilliant!
by the way, I love your blog.

ah, my guess is that this is done the same way most impoisble objects are created in the real world.
i think that brick number two and brick number three on the right hand side (from the buttom) are actually not connected, and that the top two bricks are just attached under the "toppiece" then the two buttom ones are placed further back.

This looks great! Wow.
I. however, can see hoe this "impossible" is possible. A "T" structure in the front and an "I" structure in the back. Then need a camera and nice tripod.

Its a good illusion, but its all about angles. The cross bar doesn't actually connect to the back column. It just lines up perfectly and appears to from this angle. Good one though. MC Esher meets legoland.

looks like 1 of those thing where it's standing normal and they made the camera angle to look like its connected

HA! I've seen a couple of these before. Something on the right looks funny...

The top piece is not connected to the back piece. It is the way the photo was taken which makes it look like it is conected.

Very good. And, though many will claim its been PhotoShopped, I can see how it could be done without doctoring the image.

It's simple, It's a point of view picture. If you look closer at the farest colum, you can that the line between the blocs is not at the same level then the upper bloc. So that's mean that the two blocs are not plug between them.

(Sorry for the bad english)

This isnt impossible other wise you wouldnt be able to take a picture of it! all you have to do is put the camera at the right possition!!!!!!!!!!!! By the way i love you

I think that the top tile is actually not connected to the tiles in the back - the illusion is how the picture is shot; the level that the camera is placed to make it appear that the tiles are actually connected - huh?

This actually hurts my brain.

First post!!! HA!

Nice, but flawed. The top right corner is an overlap. You can the the slight difference in the proportions of the right side of the legos.

Not bad though. Keep them coming...

The lego piece across the top is not connected to the pillar behind the lego man. The picture is taken on an angle to allow the bar to appear like it's connected.

The top of the arch is blatantly on the forward post! good work though, must have been hard to get the angle right!

I think this illusion is pretty obvious. The illusion is created by the placement of the camera which makes the over head bar appear to land on top of the bricks behind him.

We know in fact that the header is not connected to the back bricks.(looking closely at the seam you'll notice the overhead is slightly wider than the brick it 'sits on' because it is in fact closer to the caera lens, making appear larger.)

The beam is on the front pillar. It's just the camera angle that makes it look like that.

The column in the back isn't actually connected to the column in the front.

first!!!!!!!!!!!


PHOTOSHOPED

ARE YOU GONNA FIX THE WALK OF LIFE ILLUSION !!!!!!!!!!!!

THE PIC AND TEXT DONT MATCH

Its all about where the person took the picture. ive done that many times before.You just line up your eye,in this case camera, so that it looks like it is an "impossible" illusion.

k, i'm pretty good at get'n the illusions (exept the baked bean man) but this one has me stumped!!! its pretty cool though

i looked at it last night...thought about for hours now. i dont get this one. some please explain!

I GOT IT!!!

you can kinda tell that that is photoshopped (of course you know its photoshopped it impossible!!) but the shadow isnt perportioned right but that is a cool illusion!!

thanx

I think the Bar joining the 2 Pillars is actually attached only to the closer pillar, with the picture being taken at an angle at which the back pillar looks conjoined.. If that makes any sense... If you look at the circles on top of the bar, you can see they are the same size all along the top, suggesting it does not point away from us as first thought.

LOL nice illusion
I really like the face expression the used for the lego guy.

Great job! :)

The top bar is only attached to the left (foreground) column. The camera angle makes it appear to align with the right (background) column. However, you can see from its cross-section that it appears to have more depth than the right (background) column stack. That's because it is closer to the camera.

That's pretty easy.


First comment?

ah! how is this possible? i think it has been photoshopped. i feel bad for the little guy!

Weeeeird. That's pretty cool.

its obviously not connected in the back

whoah...actually...the straight block on top is just in front of the block behind the lego man....sorry to rain on your parade...

Yay! First comment dance! *does the first comment dance*

Answer - It was taken from a really weird angle. I just can't decide which post isn't really connected to it. I think it's the right one...

whats the whole point in it? its just a smple lego!!!

pospective of course

i think its that the back column is not actually attached just lined up in the photo. the reflection looks a little off as you go down which kinda tipped me off

yea first comment!!! this is so cool

camera angle. it only looks as if the top bar and the back post are connected. they arent really, its just the angle the picture was taken.

cool! i think i know how it wrks though!

this is not an impossible illusion it is simple

the only problem i can see is that on the right side of the top block (the one that creates the illusion) the rightermost 2 bumps are too big and go past the left side of the back set of bricks, giving away the fact that it is actually entirely on the second row of bumps on the floor, not the the 7nth one also, as the illusion infers, other than that , pretty good.

i've seen itbefore, but i guess its pretty cool

where is the illusion?

interesting illusion. i've seen many of these in the past.... simply created by having the camera positioned at the right place so it looks like the long bar at the top is connected to both back and front pillars.

I can't believe no one has figured this out yet.It's 7:40 p.m eastern time.You all have these figured out before I even see them. It is the camera angle ligning up the back post.Look at the shadow variations if you don't believe me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Easy. The front piece has the long one on top, covering the bumps on the top of the back piece. It looks like it's connected, but simply it's overlapping.

The arch doesn't connect with the right leg, but the camera is placed so that it appears to line up.

the top bar isn't connected to the back pillar, only the front one. The back is staked onle four legos high.
wo0t! first comment.

It's all about the camera angle. The crossbar simply isn't attached to the rear column.

yay! first comment, i hope... this illision was very well made. but if you look at the bottom the pillars are one block apart. but the top makes it look like they are three apart. that way they are putting the long piece on the front pillar to cover up the studs on the back. that is if you look at it from the right angle... that is hopefully the right answer.

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

I think it's interesting that the "front" column is not composed of four stacked bricks like the "rear" column. I would guess that the "front" column has been airbrushed in.

(Hint) the illusion only works from this angle.

It's actually not quite that hard actually. All this person did was get it into a good camera perspective so that the legos in the back were covered by the ones in the front. Notice how you can see a tiny portion of legos underneath that so called "impossible legos" connection.

This has borked my head.

I think this one is really cool. I couldn't see why it was impossible for a while but then i looked away for a while and there it was...plain to see!

I like it!

I think the coolest thing here is the sweaty lego man!!

Plz do us all a favor and give us something good!!

1st comment

It's pretty easy. if you notice, the small brick at the top of that stack is very very slightly out of place. it's because the top brick that goes across just looks like it's connected to it, but it's actually just the camera angle.

the top lego is straight and the one lego is in front of him and the other is behind him.

wow that is pretty cool I have seen this kind of illusion before

Im not a huge optical illusion solving person, but i like looking at them!! hmm... im trying to figure this one out. When i first looked it looked to me like the top lego and the one in the front weren't even attached, the top lego was just attached to the legos in the back. But now that i look closer it looks like they really are attached...hmm..still not sure. anyone else know??

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)

It looks like a perspective shot, the two towers were built, the bar was placed along the front one, the man placed in the middle and the camera angled precisely to hide the trickery.

Well, thats how it looks to me anyway.

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.