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October 25, 2007 by Vurdlak  

Impossible Crate Box Video IllusionI think many of our long time visitors have already seen this type of illusion on our website. This crate box the women is holding in her hands looks impossible to exist in real life, yet it isn’t. There has been no manipulation with the below photos, and to prove it, I also posted an interesting video you all should check. It doesn’t only include explanation to this impossible object, but explains many more interesting illusions, some of which never were posted to this website. For the first illusion with the woman holding the box, they had two rectangles supported by 2 beams and added two beams, one in the front and one in the back, but only attached to the front upper beam and the back lower one.Check the video, and comment.

Comments

30 Responses
  1. Shane

    omg omg omg

    Bill nye is the ****
    great memories.
    that old guy in there is pretty sweet though too. how sweet would it be to be retired and be able to make as many optical illusion things you want for the rest of your life? i like it.

  2. Ignis

    that was an awesome video, specilly the spiral-cloud thing, but as soon as you focus your sight on something on the photo the illusion is over

  3. KKmaslow

    I think that is cool! But when I started the video a couple seconds into it I knew what was going on! But it is still cool!

  4. Z

    Kkmaslow, you say after it started a few seconds into it you knew what was going on eh? What gave you that hint, the fact that this is an optical illusion site … so in general a video on this site would probably relate to that right.

    Congratulations for being so brilliant, and you know what. It was cool too, so you get 2 points!

    Z

  5. Peter

    That was awesome! I live Bill Nye!

    PS: No, it isn’t shopped, read the post.

  6. Anonymous

    The video box wasn’t put together in quite the same way as the one the woman is holding in the photo. In both cases, if you had rotated the box a bit, you would have seen that two of the uprights didn’t quite line up anymore with the points they were supposedly attaching. Nevertheless, 3D versions of M.C. Escher’s 2D art are always amusing!

  7. Anonymous

    we just saw that episode of bill nye in late sept early oct i love it

  8. Steven Nye

    aw man, now my head hurts…that was pretty cool!

  9. i*is*awesome

    omg i am sick of these kinds of illusions theyre like evrywhere I HATE IT
    but still…
    *sings song*
    BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY!!!!!!!!!
    =^^=
    ;P

  10. robotroid

    nice… liked it

  11. websurfer1232

    (start of sarcazum)
    yep did not see the video on aol last week
    (end of sarcazum)

  12. Lily

    I used to watch Bill Nye when I was little. This is really simple and easy, but cool all the same. The box simply has spaces in it. Voila.

  13. Anonymous

    the first picture the red shirt women is clever they knew that someone might look at the shadow to see if it was even a box or not but the put some wood there to make it seem like it was a box

  14. Andrey

    Finally I Know the secret!!

  15. Anonymous

    that is a really cool video but it doesn’t explain the picture of the lady holding the box. if u look at the box’s its shadow is still a rectangle

  16. Jocelyn

    If the “box” used in the video is the same as the one on the picture, then I still don’t get why the shadow on the picture is a perfect rectangle…

  17. Julie

    Wow–I love this guy! I did the same thing as the others…even though I stared at the “spinning” optical illusion, I was only able to see the movement of the clouds for a second. I love that box, though! I really did think he was standing inside the box–how strange that it was just a frame.

    Anyway, VERY cool!

  18. Anonymous

    ITS CALLED PHOTOSHOP

  19. Christopher

    amazing illusion - he actually looks like a woman when you look at it .

  20. Maggie <3

    It’s definitley cool. I never thought a box like that could actually exist in real life.

  21. Anonymous

    Thats awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome! I see how the picture on the top works now.

  22. Anonymous

    that. is cool. ;D wow it really looked like he was standing in an impossible box…and yes bill nye is awesome >.<

  23. Pablo

    awesome!

    great work

  24. Ba Ba Booey!

    The nut thingy was awesome!

  25. Anonymous

    cool video, I thought that I was only going to be watching one optical illusion!!!! I like to learn about our brains too!!!!

  26. Anonymous

    For the first illusion with the woman holding the box, they had two rectangles supported by 2 beams and added two beams, one in the front and one in the back, but only attached to the frony upper beam and the back lower one.

  27. Andrew Faraday

    Surely the whole area of ‘real impossible objects’ has been well and truly exhausted by now, it’s still impressive but the same tricks are being done over and over again. Maybe some which aren’t the classical impossible shapes, or a whole impossible landscape, but not more impossibox or impossible triangle illusions. Please.

  28. Me

    No way. We watched this Bill Nye episode three years ago, and I remember it. Wow.

  29. CjKun

    The box this woman is holding is so simple and easy, and still impressive. It doesn’t take more than a few seconds to understand how it is created, but you will still find it amusing.

  30. Erik

    Man, I love Bill Nye so much… he is the shizz.

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