08-11-2012, 12:38 PM
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I wonder . . .
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August 11, 2012 - Cartoon from Space?
Imagine you are hiking along, headed up a hill and
when you look up you see a gigantic tissue floating
to the ground.
![](http://cellar.org/2012/tissue 1.png)
You close your eyes and shake your head, but when you
open them again it is still there, floating . . .
![](http://cellar.org/2012/tissue 2.png)
Wait, this can't be real. It certainly doesn't look real.
It looks like a drawing. How can a drawing be sitting
at top of the hill?
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As you approach, you realize it is made of metal.
It's a sculpture, made of welded and painted steel that
looks like a two dimensional cartoon drawing of a three
dimensional piece of paper ... that is three dimensional
if you get close, but looks two dimensional if you stay
at the bottom of the hill...
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![](http://cellar.org/2012/tissue metal.png)
Well, wasn't that a nice little mind trip?
Thanks to ZenGum for sharing this post from NPR's Krulwich Wonders blog.
Images and info taken from The Art of the Illusion which
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Presents over two hundred optical illusions that defy reality, featuring works by M.C. Escher, as well as pieces from Octavio Ocampo, Rob Gonsalves, and Andre Martins de Barros.
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