Comments on: Funny Building Optical Illusion

By: blackfoot

blackfoot — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:54:53 +0000

I don’t either, look like a symmetrical square building to me

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:02:25 +0000

Ok so I actually measured the picture, and the distance from the rhs of the picture to the top of the building is less than the distance from the rhs of the picture to the bottom of the building. So, the reason it looks like a trapezium is because it *is* a trapezium. Sorry people!

By: MossCow

MossCow — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 06:38:55 +0000

For the author:

“It’s” is a contraction for “it is” or “it has.”

“Its” is a possessive pronoun meaning, more or less, “of it” or “belonging to it.”

And there is absolutely, positively, no such word as its’.

A simple test: If you can replace it[']s in your sentence with it is or it has, then your word is it’s; otherwise, your word is its.

By: heart229

heart229 — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:18:51 +0000

ppl there takin at either differnt times or on a differnt day coz the 2nd image is faded (so it appears to be raining)(or at least a really grey day)

By: cheyenne

cheyenne — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:48:46 +0000

me and my VERY SMART dad dont get whats the illusion..i dont even get what they are thrying to say about it and does anybody kno why a house and a basketball court is there?

By: Grace

Grace — Sun, 16 May 2010 00:51:41 +0000

cool…

By: Anon#1

Anon#1 — Tue, 11 May 2010 10:31:42 +0000

This is quite interesting. At first, it seems as if it actually is an upside-down trapezoid. But after closely inspecting each individual edge, they in fact are perpendicular to the ground. Mind. Blown. :D

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 :-|