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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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!
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)
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