http://www.optillusions.com/22.html
ok now my initial responce was it’s just like you have a box of 5 books. they fit perfectly into the box one way, the box and books dont change but if you rearrange them you’ll be left with extra space.
my buddy kept arguing with me and i couldnt see his point of view until someone else said if both trianges were a block of solid gold they’d take the top one as there was more actuall gold.
i still think its a simple matter of those particular pieces just happen to give the same length and height making the same triangle when rearranged. my buddy continues to argue if you imagine the entire triangle as a bucket and the pieces as water (forget that water changes shape as its not relevent to his example) you add a add all the units of water to the second triangle but it still ends up missing 1 unit of water.
Hi GDA,
Tee hee, turns out you are right and your friends are wrong. Both triangles contain the same amount of gold. =)
Regards,
Zhuge Liang
thanks you csn, if you didn’t do it, i was going to.
afterall, it is an ILLUSION!!!
cheers
Their deceptive techniques are no match for my google search skill!
thanks guys. my buddy found one right before i checked this, though the explanation he found wans’t nearly as thorough.
i understand it completely now, but they sure do fu ck with you by calling it the “triangle” puzzle.
I did notice the diagonal lines were a little out of whack, but I couldn’t figure out what was causing it.
I couldn’t figure it out on my own - although I knew something fishy was going on because the total area of those blocks is 32, but 1/2 of a 13 x 5 rectangle is 32.5 Had to go down as far as Kung Lek’s hint to figure it out - but yeah, what CSN said, now I noticed the angles weren’t the same. The red triangle has angles of arctan(3/8), arctan(8/3), 90 while the turquoise traingle has angles of arctan(2/5), arctan(5/2), 90.
“Their deceptive techniques are no match for my google search skill!”
At the bottom of the page it says
“For the answer, click here”
did you click there, idiot?
I’ve spent the whole day triangulating ground models (basicly draping a wireframe model)… then I saw that, I almost freaked… by the by, yeah, no duh… anyone have something harder?
GDA, I didn’t mean you. I meant Shaolin-Do, who I am coming to believe is the dumbest human being in Texas, even when Dubya is at the Crawford ranch.
