Comments on: Magic Eggs Optical Illusion

By: Astrid

Astrid — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:17:51 +0000

Because in the first pic an egg was never there. You notice because above the line on the first pic part of the egg is missing which means everything below the line is just a picture.

By: Coolio

Coolio — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:48:21 +0000

Ha! That’s stupid. That just reverses it. You shouldn’t even be trying to do these things if that’s where you’re coming to. It doesn’t matter which oe is the original, as long as the process flows from one to the other.

it’s like saying this is not true:

2 + 1 = 3

therefore

1 + 2 = 3

you’re saying something like this:

1 + 2 = 3

but

2 + 1 = 2.

duh.

By: Coolio

Coolio — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:41:32 +0000

Awesome! :)

By: Coolio

Coolio — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:40:09 +0000

I figured it out in the same way, but I realised something else, but I don’t think it matters, but maybe to help anybody else trying to figure it out:

1. The outline is thicker than the piece lines.
2. The thickness of lots of lines on the L shape change.
3. Because some pieces from the outline were moved away from the outline, there are thicker lines on the piece lines and some thinner lines on the outline.
4. These lines do NOT LINE UP, which means that this could be why a gap is formed.

However, I don’t think it would make a gap that big, so there must be another trick to it.

By: none ur buisness

none ur buisness — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:22:41 +0000

easy, they slide the L shape down so that a new, smaller triangle is in the place of the big one in the right corner, and take the remaining upper piece of the big triangle that is showing from the L piece and add it to the other side, therefore the empty space is from the upper spot of the right handed triangle after sliding the L piece down, and sliding the now smaller piece of the upper right handed piece of the triangle to the other far left corner.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:44:04 +0000

You are all missing it. Picture B with a hole cut into it is the original. Note 7 complete eggs and a hole. Rearranging the pieces gives you an 8th egg and “consumes” the area where there used to be a hole.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:14:40 +0000

I was making a post and then lost it. I see this is an old I found but I have the solution for the hole. First I agree that there is one less egg because 3 and 6 are missing a small portion and the remainder is placed in the other eggs making them slightly larger. The hole is because when the pieces are rearranged they make a picture slightly higher than the original (measure them on your screen). That slight amount times the width gives the square area of the hole.

By: Tweety

Tweety — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:15:20 +0000

I get it

By: Hunter

Hunter — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:32:44 +0000

One disappears because there is a piece missing from the 3rd and 6th egg on A. Those “half” eggs eventually take up some other egg bottoms and it makes one disappear

By: Nicola

Nicola — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:25:35 +0000

There never were 8 eggs. Count the egg parts on the main picture then count the parts on the pieces. Each only has seven. The hole comes from the shapes being moved, not an illusion just maths! We are fooled into assuming the parts will go back together to form a complete picture when rearranged, but because we are using irregular shapes they will fit differently. The other thing we assume is the whole picture is a selection of shapes, but there is a main background and three shapes overlapped.
Hope this sounds about right, it worked in my head!

By: Simin

Simin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:47:57 +0000

Easy, third egg from the left does not have a lower edge (incomplete), which gives the illusion of no eggs in the second picture.

If you draw the lower edge of that same egg and slice the picture up to arrange like the second picture, you’ll that edge sticking out in that cut out space.

By: wolfgangwild

wolfgangwild — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:45:29 +0000

ok as far as i understand it the L piece is the key… because the recess created by the wider piece of the L bit is to short for the tail to fit it creates a gap…

coupled with the fact that the smaller of the 2 triangles and the L shape have less surface area than the large triangle creates a void in the end result…

as for the disappearing egg… all the eggs appear to be segregated… however there are 2 that arn’t cut… 2 missing pieces whilst these pieces seem insignificant in fact they are all that is…

the large of the piece creating the void is accounted for but with nothing remaining at the top of where the egg would be and none at the bottom of where the gap is now created by the L piece… we are left to believe there are 7 eggs…

when actually there wasn’t 8 to begin with

By: anne

anne — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:51:42 +0000

Bob’s right. I noticed the eggs were larger in the 2nd pic, and there are 2 bits of egg missing in the 1st. So the area of the eggs must be the same in both.
I think the only way this can be done is if the 2nd pic is very slightly deeper than the 1st, which accounts for the missing area in the hole.
Just read Fred’s contribution. I’m sure he’s right!

By: someone u dont know

someone u dont know — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:51:55 +0000

i dont get it…

By: Eric Schuler

Eric Schuler — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:42:45 +0000

There were only 7 eggs to begin with. It was then cut into the shapes. Just look at the edges of the 8 eggs.