A Real-Life Perpetual Motion Machine? (Video)

By on February 16, 2011 in News 32

OK … what is this really? Via LiveLeak:

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  • ArgosyJones

    However it was done, it’s a neat trick. Making a physical model of an Escher device is enormously difficult, but possible (for a single vantage point). This was probably done with a green screen, and composited, with a bit of wood, the buckets, and water in the green room, then overlaid onto a real room, with the escher device digitally inserted.

  • ArgosyJones

    However it was done, it’s a neat trick. Making a physical model of an Escher device is enormously difficult, but possible (for a single vantage point). This was probably done with a green screen, and composited, with a bit of wood, the buckets, and water in the green room, then overlaid onto a real room, with the escher device digitally inserted.

  • 6tr8h88

    Really disinfo ?

  • 6tr8h88

    Really disinfo ?

  • Zinger

    The sound of the water is not a good fit with what the eye can see.

  • Martin Hayes

    The sound of the water is not a good fit with what the eye can see.

  • Namelesswon

    This is the resultant combination of: No girlfriend + No xbox.

  • Namelesswon

    This is the resultant combination of: No girlfriend + No xbox.

    • Rufus

      Seriously. He could be spending his time much more efficiently by playing team deathmatch in COD.

  • chinagreenelvis

    CGI.

  • chinagreenelvis

    CGI.

  • Anonymous

    I’m not so sure it’s cgi. His shadow does cross in the way you’d expect for the way you’d actually build something like that (ie, when he’s a little closer to the camera. The “top” is probably smaller than it looks and closer). It’s more likely that there’s a spot where the water is being pumped up like a fountain and part of the illusion is hiding where the water is disappearing and reappearing farther up.

  • quartz99

    I’m not so sure it’s cgi. His shadow does cross in the way you’d expect for the way you’d actually build something like that (ie, when he’s a little closer to the camera. The “top” is probably smaller than it looks and closer). It’s more likely that there’s a spot where the water is being pumped up like a fountain and part of the illusion is hiding where the water is disappearing and reappearing farther up.

  • justagirl

    it’s a kool-aid machine designed to keep the sugar from settling at the bottom. notice how he stirs first?

  • justagirl

    it’s a kool-aid machine designed to keep the sugar from settling at the bottom. notice how he stirs first?

  • Bud Bundy

    whatever it is its a pretty neat trick.

  • Bud Bundy

    whatever it is its a pretty neat trick.

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  • Megatron

    Wow… Disinfo is even more retarded than I thought.

    • http://www.nickmeador.org/ ndmeador

      You’re entitled to an opinion on the video itself, but there are huge implications for bringing Escher’s drawings to real life in any way. We need to expand our conceptions of what is possible. Personally I had never even thought of that drawing as a potential self-regenerating power device, until I saw this video (whether “real” or CGI).

  • Megatron

    Wow… Disinfo is even more retarded than I thought.

  • http://www.nickmeador.org/ ndmeador

    You’re entitled to an opinion on the video itself, but there are huge implications for bringing Escher’s drawings to real life in any way. We need to expand our conceptions of what is possible. Personally I had never even thought of that drawing as a potential self-regenerating power device, until I saw this video (whether “real” or CGI).

  • reubenavery

    Fuckin’ Miracles! How do they work?

  • Anonymous

    Fuckin’ Miracles! How do they work?

  • Rufus

    Seriously. He could be spending his time much more efficiently by playing team deathmatch in COD.

  • III

    watch bbc illusions .. that’s it…

  • III

    watch bbc illusions .. that’s it…

  • Someone

    I love the original drawing in the lower-right

  • Someone

    I love the original drawing in the lower-right

  • Clown

    clown