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From the Puzzle Series, here’s a small puzzle to start the new year…
How was this picture taken? The illusion is that there is no water in this photo….
22 responses to “How’s That? (28)”
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Cool illusion! 🙂
I’ve seen reflections like this before, for example in Seaworld. There is a huge whale tank with an underwater window for visitors. And when the sunlight hits the water in the tank, it’s filtered through the window, and the visitor’s area looks just like this 😉
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Bingo saltedwound & Kucharo and welcome to all the new participants. The photo is upside down. This is a photo from inside the “behind the waterfall grotto” at a pool when the waterfall pump was not running. So the sunlight reflecting off the pool surface is bouncing off the tiled ceiling of the “cave” more brightly than usual.
It was interesting how the tiled ceiling looked just like the bottom of a pool itself.
And of course, the light danced around in a wonderful fiesta.
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that actaully is a stage trick
thin pool of water (typically kiddy pool) bounce some light into it and out of it comes illusion of water. I think airbubbles disturb the water to do this.One could get a similar effect from projecting through water running over a sheet of glass..perhaps something you might like to try with your collection of laser pointers in the shower 🙂
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Like you wrote: The illusion is that there’s no water in this picture. That’s good enough for the illusion group, because one THINKS that there is water 😉
Did you ever see Siegfried and Roy or David Copperfield? Well, those are illusionists that sure "turn your world upside down" 😉
This one is your best submission to the illusion group so far! Compliments and thank you! 😀
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I didn’t see this one in time for the contest, but there’s a nice clue to the tile reflection. If you look at the structure, you can see it’s periodic in some parts. For ex. there’s a line running bottom to top on the right that waves back and forth. This could be the contribution of the non-flat surface of each tile. This might be true if the light making this reflection were only hitting about 9 tiles in the long direction (bottom to top). How large were the tiles and were they covering a flat surface?
TroyWorks, you don’t need air bubbles to cause water to reflect light in a distorted way. The reflection from the wavy surface (or refraction through it) causes an effect that’s like a series of random "funhouse mirrors" wavy lenses, or old, thick, uneven panes of window glass. It basically takes the parallel rays of sunlight and reflects (refracts) them in different directions depending on the surface structure. The height and angles of the waves will modulate where the sunlight gets steered to. Inside the water itself, the light doesn’t bend much. All the action is at the surface(s). Shine a flashlight at a spoon’s concave or convex side and project the reflection onto a wall in a dark room to see what kinds of distortions are possible.
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Don’t jump in. Therefore, what’s not there is more important than what is there.
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Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Creative Commons- Free Pictures, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
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