Various (random) pictures I have collected (56kers BEGONE!)

ChrisGrenard · Post by **ChrisGrenard** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:21 am

First up: Animated gifs, part 1

ChrisGrenard · Post by **ChrisGrenard** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:23 am

Animated gifs part 2

ChrisGrenard · Post by **ChrisGrenard** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:27 am

Humorous pictures, part 1

Ninja Shirt (oversized)

ChrisGrenard · Post by **ChrisGrenard** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:33 am

humor, part 2

Geek Chart

ChrisGrenard · Post by **ChrisGrenard** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:36 am

Humor, part 3. This is the last of my pictures.

Homework (oversized)

Kratz · Post by **Kratz** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:52 am

That last image really sums it up.

ChrisGrenard · Post by **ChrisGrenard** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:56 am

Kratz wrote:That last image really sums it up.

Exactly why I posted it last. Just for you

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:00 am

Pictures like this may as well be known as Meal-traps. I simply cannot let them scroll by my screen without figuring out what's going on.

Fortunately, I think I've got it. The big right-triangle purports to be a 5-12-13, and the red and the blue triangles do their very best to try and look as if they're similar to the larger triangle, but as far as I know, 2-5-X and 3-8-W are *not* the same ratios as 5-12-13. So what's going on is that along the hypotenous of the large triangle, in the large picture there is less area in those blocks than there is in the blocks that the hypotenous goes through in the lower picture. Look, in the bottom picture at the point where the red triangle and blue triangle meet along the hypotenous. It's *right on* one of the square corners. In the top picture, go to that same square corner. You can see that the red triangle is distinctly *under* this corner, showing that over the course of the 13-length hypotenous, you could easily "sneak" the area of one full block in the lower picture.

Sneaky.

~Neal

onaznam · Post by **onaznam** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:04 am

I really admire you Meal. I will leave it at that.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:09 am

...T-E-N-U-S-E

Got it. Nothing like misspelling a word like eightteen times in the span of one paragraph.

~Neal

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:13 am

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:27 am

now I know I'm colour-blind but does anyone else see red and blue triangles in that picture?

either I'm worse than I thought or there are no blue triangles there

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:33 am

Andrew wrote:now I know I'm colour-blind but does anyone else see red and blue triangles in that picture?

either I'm worse than I thought or there are no blue triangles there

I'm a guy, if there are four colors to pick from, even if they're all shades of periwinkle and cornflower, I'm going to be referring to them as red, blue, green and yellow. Pseudo-blue is close enough for me.

I couldn't spell hypotenuse, you really think I could have made a good play at turquoise?

~Neal

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:39 am

I'd have gone for green since those triangles are about the greenest triangles I ever dang saw. but that's just me.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:40 am

A couple of oldies

Lord Percy · Post by **Lord Percy** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:28 pm

To me it just looks like the hypotenuse in the upper triangle is slightly bent inward, thereby smuggling away that one square. Or is that what you were trying to say?

Kratz · Post by **Kratz** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:38 pm

Kratz · Post by **Kratz** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:47 pm

Bad Demographic · Post by **Bad Demographic** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:39 pm

I really like the picture of the street artist. I had to look at it for quite a while to figure it out. The artist is on the right. The "man" on the left is a picture drawn on the pavement. Likewise the bottle and glass of beer on the right is a drawing. Clever street artist!

Fishy · Post by **Fishy** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:49 pm

The hypotenuse actually is bent slightly inward on the top one. Its not even a triangle. It is a tetrahedron. Unfortunately I didn't come up with this on my own, I had help. http://www.grand-illusions.com/triangle1.htm It is an optical illusion.

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:23 pm

The hypotenuse actually is bent slightly inward on the top one. Its not even a triangle. It is a tetrahedron. Unfortunately I didn't come up with this on my own, I had help. http://www.grand-illusions.com/triangle1.htm It is an optical illusion.

I don't think you explain it well. The trick seems to be that the green triangle and the red triangle do NOT have the same proportions.

Kratz · Post by **Kratz** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:50 pm

I think I see the point... it IS the same shapes, but the overall thing is not a triangle because the angles on the two inner triangles are different.

I thought you guys were arguing something you weren't.

Never mind me... math is for sucks anyway.

ChrisGrenard · Post by **ChrisGrenard** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 3:59 pm

Fine fine fine, I'll explain the triangle.

Ok, the red triangle is 8 across and 3 high. So it's slope is 3/8

The Dark Green triangle is 5 across and 2 high. Slope is 2/5

3/8 != 2/5

Because of this, in the first picture, they bend slighly inwards on the hypotenuse. In the second picture, they bend slightly outwards.

So the hypotenuse may look straight, but it is not. Indeed, as has been shown, it is an optical illusion.

And my own favorite pick of the bunch is indeed the street artist. I had to look at that picture for probably 5 minutes before I got it. Very interesting, and that guy is VERY talented.

Kratz · Post by **Kratz** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:47 pm

Yeah, I understand now - I thought people were saying that the component shapes were actually different in each picture. They weren't.