Where is the ball?
Got another great vid from a friend of mine yesterday. Even though you may think: “What is a magic trick doing on an optical illusions dedicated website”, you’ll quickly change your mind after the clip has ended.
But wait! There is more to it then you probably noticed at first. Be sure to replay the video couple of times, and each time concentrate on another background figure. Are the wooden mannequin, Rubik’s Cube, radio and whole bunch of other items lined as you originally presumed?
Even though magic tricks and optical illusions have whole lot in common, you’ll certainly agree that Chop Cups video has much more to do with illusions, than magicians and tricks. This has to be one of my favorite clips of all times. Btw, it gives me a great pleasure observing the “Top 10 Optical Illusions” chart in our sidebar. It’s like watching a live-growing organism, providing me with real-time feedback of what kind of material my audience really appreciates. Apart from ratings, comments and “top 10 illusions”, I’m thinking of engaging you guys even further. More stuff coming soon!
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LOVE IT !!!! great music too !
wow that just totally tripped me out.
Awesome illusion.
Awesome! Was totally not expecting that! :)
Alright, that was pretty freakin’ cool. It was more of a CG effect than an optical illusion, but still very well done.
How..? What..? HUH!!? This blew my mind!
Hey Vurdlak,
Just a suggestion, since you brought up the top 10 feature: Make it so we can vote without having to go to the comments. I might want to vote on an illusion, but I may not want to leave a comment.
For example, I took a few weeks to start at the oldest post and work my way backwards through your collection. I would have rated each along the way, but leaving comments would have taken too long.
Just my $.02.
Thanks,
Mark
Hmmm. the middle cup is the only cup that doesn’t reflect on the table…
@MTSzabo – you’re wrong. You don’t have to comment in order to leave a rating! It’s just that rating posts is possible from within a post, not from main/category/archives page. This is because sometimes article isn’t seen in full on the main page (”read more”), thus wouldn’t do justice to the article, who which be rated from main page, while user hasn’t even seen whole article.
Very cool and unexpected. If you follow the cup with the ball, you can tell that the ball is in the middle cup. Then the middle cup and ball is removed, and replaced with a sticker for the cup and the ball. When the two clips are pasted together, it looks like a single shot. The trick is in making the sticker look exactly like the cup, with color hue and lighting, which they pulled off very well.
awesome!
@Rudy
yeah I came to that conclusion as well. You can tell that the shadows of the hands fall behind the cup at first (thus it being 3D and on flat on the table). After the hands cut away before they lifts the cups you can notice the shadow appearing on the cup.
very nice indeed
Cool! There’s a “making of” video at vimeo.com. Just click on the word “vimeo” next to the progress bar during the video. You are then taken to the vimeo site and the “making of” video is a option on the right side. They even answer some questions about the production in the comment section.
Awesome! Great blog man! Just loved it!
That blew my mind! IT’s freaking amazing!
Omg… I can’t even figure out when they switched the cup and the tape.
Looking at the small photo I noticed the middle cup doesn’t have a shadow or reflection.
Great illusion !
OK WOW, this is the first time I have been so blown away as to leave a comment, WOW!
AWESOME!!!!!^^
This is an impresive illusion.
on replay i caught a moment of the footage that helped my eyes see the truth. play it back and pause at 00:36 when the thumb from the left hand passes infront of the middle cup, if you freeze it at that moment your eyes can see the centre cup not right.
Rudy, you’re wrong. The middle cup is always a piece of card or paper. There is not shadow at any time under that cup. Watch it again!
JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!
i think my mind exploded…..
(checking for gray matter on the floor)
not so great trick cause I always seam to find the ball, but the Illusion it self was great.
I expected them to move things around, not to have all the peaces broken but put in a way that they seamed whole.
When it says, where’s the ball, you can see that shadow of the middle is wanishing
well, could we get it in a form of a link as well because for some reason it won’t load, and i’d like to see it :D
thank you
WOW amazing!
Heh, watched it for a second time and realized the dude is wearing a top hat for no apparent reason. Oh wait, hats are cool! Yep, that’s it. :)
@Vurdlak
Ok, I get that. All I’m saying is that it would be better to be able to vote without having to “drill down” into the post. Check out the icanhascheezburger.com family of sites to see what I mean.
Mark
Whoa. Whoa. Back up. Whoa. *watches it a few more times*
As hard to believe as it is, there is NO CUTTING OF CLIPS in this film. If you look VERY carefully you can see that the middle cup is paper the whole time. That’s why his hand covers it in a strange way when he puts the ball under it.
Ingenious. Wow. Was NOT expecting that.
Goosebumps! Damned, that was strange. Just awesome and weird. I have to show this to someone.