I wonder what happens when we do this design in architects making crazy road driving people mental just looking at it.

A well deserved prize winner. Congratulations.

The slopes are actually downhill, but the shooting/vision angle and the construction of the masts make it look like the slope pointing uphill. When the cam is turned, we can see that actually the slopes lean downhill toward the center.

Wow, very very cool, even after seeing how it "really" is built, when you move it back to the original position, it still looks like they are all slanted uphill, nicely done!

Very clever use of perspective. Love it. Thumbs up!

Great Effect.

@orangeboiii.

3 жыл бұрын

ahat

@orangeboiii.

3 жыл бұрын

what

The columns are not vertical but are sloped thus creating the illusion. It's all about our perspective :)

there is a road in Canada where people think they are rolling uphill, but in actuality, they are not, it is the same as this.

Wow that literally hurt my brain

@shelberz1

4 жыл бұрын

oshea bailey Yes!! Thank you

Google Illusion Contest Neural Correlate. He's on the front page for winning. It's just an optical illusion, no magnets, video shopping, or strings? Just angles and perspective.

To whomever built the model; bravo.

In Amman, Jordan the same illusion exists on one of the hills, and cars roll up hill. Thanks for the Japanese advanced math students to clear this out.

this is really an illusion. no matter how hard i tried , i still couldn't get out of it.

More so than that of magic, this is in the realm of trick photography, the likes of which British filmmakers were perfecting decades ago

Perspective can do some crazy things. Even knowing what the trick is, the illusion still holds. I know the balls are going down, but they look like they're going up.

I think the people who are saying "magnet" are falling into the suggestion trap in the title. You read "magnet," see what appears to be a magnet trick, and then even when you see the proof that it's a perspective illusion, you can't get "magnet" out of your head. I mean, watch carefully on the timing; why would some of the slopes consistently be faster than the others if it was a magnet?

Brains are so easily fooled. Makes you wonder how the world actually looks before our brains mess with the image.

That is so smart and cool my head almost exploded. Awesome.!!

After seing the actual angles - I still cant see the down slope when balls go up slope. The illusion is flawless

What's more impressing? the visual effect, or the free time that such guy seems to have?

Reminds me of Magnetic Hill in New Brunswick, just outside of Moncton. Same principle: the surrounding topography and treelines make you think you're at the top of the hill when you're really at the bottom. You drive 'down,' put your car in neutral, and it goes back 'up' the hill in reverse. Pretty cool, but it's a tourist trap.

i personaly think it has something to do with the slope of the supports... the center one appears so long that you'd think it as the highsest...

other than that, a man who knows how to think on more than one dimension is a turn on. no man can think that way and not be humbled

That is so sweet. How do 103 people not like this?

This was my video of the day for June 1, 2010. Mind-boggling!

Ah youtube.....The only place where an optical illusion video can incite a flame war....

How can people not get this illusion when he actually turned the platform around to SHOW you how this happens.

Excellent! The only visible clue to what's really happening is that the balls seem to roll much faster up the farthermost slopes, because they're shorter.

the tome it takes for the balls to travel is a dead give away

simple explanation: the slopes are up an the middle of that thing is way lower than the slopes and he filmed it in a way that you cant tell. if the camera would of got lower the you would of seen it

This shattered my existance.

I'm still puzzling over how he did it. bravo!

It seems the same concept is being used around auto racing circuits (possibly others). When a cameras vantage point around the course could distort the sponsorship logos, they print them in such a way as to make it appear the image is facing the camera directly. Some amazing sidewalk arists do it to.

@meffcio its not about light, it is about perspective view. The columns are not vertical in the structure. So from this side and only this it appears to have an opposite grade

@Toadsanime its an illusion, it only looks like slopes going up from the camera angle, when the camera was moved you could clearly see it was slopes going down

im still puzzling over how the person who made that did it. I get it, but i still think it's amazing. bravo!

Flerfs be like: "TrUsT yOuR sEnSeS"

first you would build what u want to happen. then you pick an angle and manipulate physically what u want it to only look like from that angle.....one way, drawing on paper, a flat image can help understand what u should duplicate from one angle to make it appear that way because it will show u what shadows and what distances and shorts and longs should appear

This video will go viral in 2021

HES A WIZARD HARRY!

This should be illegal. My brain hurts... and I'm out of beer.

this is impliedly means we have to respect each other's perspective

cool, though you can see that some "ramps" are shorter than other, based on the speed of the balls (some seem to reach their target faster)

If you see it at a particular angle and distance - you'd see the same illusion in real life. I recommend the book Masters of Illusion (optical illusion book) on finding other optical illusions.

@believeinstyle at least you understood the trick! yep, i agree, amazing job, and camera angle :-)

Wow, nicely constructed slopes! I really couldn't tell they were sloping upwards at the beginning of the video no matter how many times I watched it. Haha

@WongRayChina No, its not a 3D simulation, the shadows react exactly how you would expect they should if the board itself was rotated. Think about it, whats easyer to do, rotate the camera around the board flawlessly or simply put the board on something and rotate it from under a table?

@anilsingh43 Did you pay attention in High School Science? It's just a matter of perspective. The camera is set to the side while the tracks are bent so that when they are viewed on a 2D camera display, the tracks look as if they are rolling up, while in reality, they are bent down toward the middle.

Well done, it was worth all the effort it must have taken.

@shoseki There is a sloppy road with a similar illusion in france, called "la cote qui descend" ;) Even with binocular view ^^

@basketboy0001 That's the point. from one angle the slopes LOOK like they go up. when adjusted to a different angle, you can see they actually slope down, thats why its called an optical illusion.

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Nice work! I like these optical illusions so much!

Ok, Ive found a way to beat these thing. All you have to do is watch the speed at which objects roll "up" the hill. Assuming constant friction you can tell if the distance is shorter then it seems. Of course you can also watch your object roll up the hill and gather that stuff is going to shit from that.

trapezoids look like rectangle when viewed perpendicular to one of its parallel sides

This is what's known as a "Mind screw," though in this case, it's more like a mind auger.

an applause! amazing!

Лучшая иллюзия 2010: Обман зрения возникает из-за того, что мозг стремится представить себе подпорные колонны вертикальными, и самую длинную из них (в центре) - самой высокой. Правда, срабатывает иллюзия только с одной точки зрения. Кстати, эта особенность появляется с годами, потому мозг не обременённых опытом детсадовских детей редко проделывает с ними ту же шутку.

The best optical illusion I ve ever seen!!!!!!!!!! i like it

This can get the nobel prize

@alkhema17 You're not watching long enough. It's not a magnet, it's a perspective illusion. From a certain angle, it looks like all the ramps are going UP, but if you look at it from a different angle, you can see that they are actually all going DOWN.

Excellent illusion. Perfectly made.

I'm not sure I get why so many people are confused, they show how it is done.

Flipante, muy bueno.

Damn even after you watch it again it looks different!

Great ilusion. At first we thing its magnet but the first balls are in wood (they could be metal inside).

holy shit i can't even see it after you showed the actual thing, that's really messed up but cool

This kind of illusion only works well with "one eye" or on camera video...

So THAT'S how magnets work!

@sfmw09 Perspective. Your brain interprets what you see, rather than just showing you exactly what is there. Some of the supports are slanted so they look long, and some of the ramps are shorter than others, so that the brain seeing shorter ramps and longer support in the middle says "Hey, that's four equal-length ramps, and they're going up."

it's "magic", nor is it "magnetism", folks. Take a look from 0:29 - 0:32. Watch it a few times. You can see how the creator has cleverly arranged the angle and shape of the ramps to make it look like it's tilting up, when really it's tilting down.

Here's a mindblowing thought- What if the one angle that shows the balls rolling down the ramps is the optical illusion? Then the 90% of the witnesses who saw the balls being drawn up the slope would be the ones who saw it as it truly was, It would be awesome (and a little freaky) if the designer of this illusion came out and said that the downward sloping ramps was the illusion.

I used winamp to autotag the music. I'm not sure but it may be: Title: The Breadcrumb Trail Artist: Daniel Pemberton Album: Chap311 [A Curious Case Of Drama] Year:2005 I couldn't find a copy of the music. It may be a soundtrack for a tv show in bbc

@Mac1634 lol, i was thinking that, if his argument is right then the balls really were rolling uphill. Your right its mostly the middle pillar but the shorter chutes are placed at a cunning angle too. This is first class.

@probablychris Not only lighting but it's also important because of the shadows.

It is a simple optic illusion but great!

That would look awesome in 3D... ;)

angles baby, they make the world a different place.

These are so awesome! It makes you think of who came up with this kind of stuff. :)

@hotchica34 I assume video editing was used for the completely black background, but the object itself wasn't photoshopped, it's just our brains failing at depth perception.

@AAAIdEnTiTy Then can you explain why the balls "rolled uphill" if the middle part dropped at :34? No, you can't. It's an illusion. At the beginning, the middle pillar leans away from the camera, that creates the illusion it's longer than it actually is. Which explains why when the camera moves behind it at :38 everything appears the way it ACTUALLY is. The video isn't fake at all.

@MeandmagiC The point at which the object is viewed makes all the difference, so it would be perspective.

Totally messed with my mind haha. This is pretty cool.

You really only need 2 balls to survive

@MostWantedWannaBE Not at all. This is just an illusion in monoscopic vision, our stereoscopic vision allows this to be easily detected in person, unless you covered one eye.

If you're quicker then me you might notice the fact that the balls take far longer to roll "up" the close ramp the first time around :P

@jamesandrew2000 its not magnetism! the slopes are all sloping down, just an optical illusion

one of the balls moves as the camera pans around

Beautiful. I was not expecting that !

Freaky and incredibly cool.

@123xcharmerx321 Thanks for showing wintercat2 the right way, he's been doing that and nothing more in all comments on this vid. Also, as a Dutch person, I'd like to point out that it's completely legal here to grow 5 weedplants in the perimeters of your own house and garden. For all we know, mccute111908 might live in The Netherlands as we speak; it's not uncommon to find Americans who have moved to The Netherlands (either temporarily or permanently).

NICEE at first i'm like, 'yeah yeah, it's just a magnet, and then you move it around... Whow!'

I went to a place I think in South Dakota that was called Cosmos. It's a house of illusions because it is built on a mountain. And their was a trick just like this but it wasn't several paths it was a wooden bar that was clearly shown going up hill. And it was nailed to the side of the house. You could physically touch it to see it was up. Yet water ran up it and fell off the top. And I have no idea how that worked XD

@sinrtb

6 жыл бұрын

When I was around 12 (slightly less then 30 years ago), my mom and my younger brother went on a road trip to Disneyland from just north of Portland Oregon and we saw the exact same thing. I give all the extraneous information because i have no idea where it was and my mom is no longer able to ask the question and my brother was to young at the time to remember it now.

@ee7klt It only works because of the camera. You could look at it in real life from the angle shown in the video, and your eye would pick up on it. The 2D monitor of the camera (or your computer, better yet) makes it happen.

VERY cool... you cannot believe everything you see!

Nice Work. Is at the angle that we look at that seems that the balls are going up, but in reality they are going down. Very Nice.

this is amazing!

simple but still amazing

Awesome tricks of perspective here. I'm really impressed!

I want that and the slow motion ball on my desk!