Showing posts with label puzzles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label puzzles. Show all posts

Friday, September 15, 2006

Mr. Bean?

Can you find the face in this picture?
From: Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena.
Where there are lots of other interesting Illusions.

Thursday, June 23, 2005

Escher (2)

At least one thing makes the mill impossible: the column in the middle supporting the water canal at the top - and standing on the same canal at the bottom. That´s not possible if the column is vertical and the canal horizontal.

Another thing is, that the column cannot stay vertical if you could change the angle of view.

Eschers umulige mølle

Saturday, June 11, 2005

Escher (1)

If you take a closer look at this picture by the Dutch artist Escher, it looks as if the water continue to run all by itself, forcing the wheel to move. If you install an electric generator connected to the wheel, you would actually have a perpetual motion machine - if it were possible to build the installation in physical reality. But that´s exactly what you can´t do! And why not?

Escher: vandmøllen