Comments on: Funny Building Optical Illusion

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:04:00 +0000

Well im sure someone feels like a doofus after attributing illusion to parallax… The building is obiously tall and large, and the picture was taken froma point taller than the roof, its just fair to science that the roof seems larger than the base ( cuz the base is farther! ).

By: Miggy

Miggy — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:13:00 +0000

and there’s another illusion, when you scroll your screen up and down, it’s like the stripes are moving, almost like the fan with the girl illusion!

By: CooperZ

CooperZ — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:51:00 +0000

The build in the top image is not perfectly parallel. Try opening it in Photoshop or any other picture editing software and try a rectangle around. The left side of the building is perfectly parallel, but the ride is not !

By: OuRaNoS

OuRaNoS — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:05:00 +0000

Where can we find this building again???

By: sharkdog33

sharkdog33 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:41:00 +0000

that is one ugly building. who would design such an ugly building???

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:35:00 +0000

#13, you’re wrong. You don’t need a fish eye lens to produce parallax distortion. Just photograph a skyscraper from the ground and point the camera up to include the top. The building’s walls will not be parallel. You can see in the photo that it was taken above the roofline and pointed downward.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:44:00 +0000

Where is this building? Anyone know more about the building?

By: Zenithtb

Zenithtb — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:41:00 +0000

But it’s also pretty ugly :-|

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:17:00 +0000

to be honest, i see no illusion here, it just looks like perspective making the top seem larger, the picture was taken at that angle, so the floor/bottom of the building is further away from us.

did you know, if you stand centre on and look down a street, the houses in the distance seem to be smaller??? (for those of you that English isn’t your first language, that’s called sarcasm).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:34:00 +0000

If you look carefully, the bottom image has 3 1/4 stories that marry up to a peeked roof to the right of the image, and the top image has 4 stories that marry up to the peeked roof on the right hand side. Therefore the picture was taken at different HEIGHTS……