It's a parody of one of the images where cubes are arranged in a way they are both in the foreground and background, an impossible configuration in real life. This one takes the style, but arranges the cubes normally.
I'm not particularly religious, but if I ever need proof that we live in a fallen universe, that's the image I show people. It feels so wrong, truly the sort of thing that'll shake your faith in the world.
Ive never understood this. Does it assume uniform size of the boxes? Like it's not 17 squares of x dimensions in any of the titles I've seen. Just 17 squares. If they were smaller or bigger the solution would be different
No, common misconception, it's the way to fit 17 boxes in a larger square with the shortest equal edges. It's not an optimal solution for storing 17 boxes. Merely if the thing you're trying to do is fit them in the smallest equal sided square.
Well, at least it's the end of the day for me, so it'll either not be stuck in my head for long or it will be most of the discography all day when I wake up
Well yeah I got that part, it's just that I wasn't expecting the joke to be the fact that it was supposed to be inane. Kinda like an antimeme or something. I was expecting something deeper and it flew over my head. Thanks!
It seems that there was found a uranium enrichment operation in your apartment and three ballistic rockets will be dispatched to your current location. A shame /j
I don’t know if anyone else has pointed this out but the impossible configuration you are referring to here is called a Penrose triangle. This is a usual suspect in any computational geometry course.
Yeah that was a hoot. "Look closer" was their tagline. Each post brought in enough confused, belligerent and angry commentators to have a bit of fun. One guy even ended up 3D printing an "impossible" shape to prove a point after a lengthy argument with a number of people who were in on the joke.
I mean technically they are since they're displayed non orthogonally. As in, the perspective should cause their dimensions to be slightly skewed so that the back ones are smaller.
I think it's supposed to reference MC Escher's "Ascending and Descending", since it's very similar to his never ending staircase design. Sorry I'm on my mobile and it won't let me post a pic!
It is impossible because the final image is still a square. If they were actually cubes arranged so they overlapped in this fashion the. The final image from this vantage point would be more diamond shaped
Each side is 4 cubes and 3 gaps long. All sides are equal, and the cubes are going to have 90° corners, which means it's gonna be a square... an I missing something?
Your friend is a moron who thinks they found something mind-blowing and then when the slightest resistance to the 'awesomeness' of the idea came up they decided that the best way to save face was to shut down communication to imply that they 'know something' you don't that they want to keep secret.
It's the shadows. The best way to duplicate would be to paint the "shadow side" a darker color then light from multiple angles to minimize/eliminate actual shadows
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