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# PLEEEEEEEEEAAAAASE
tell me how

this is possible, ive cut them out and had them on the floor and still its not right
(, Mon 8 Mar 2004, 22:52, archived)
# it's not a perfect triangle
it's a quadrilateral
(, Mon 8 Mar 2004, 22:53, archived)
# It just is
you're looking at the squares, you should be looking at the bits that don't fill an entire square
(, Mon 8 Mar 2004, 22:53, archived)
# It's because the two triangles
Have subtley different slopes.
(, Mon 8 Mar 2004, 22:54, archived)
# when you rearrange the two triangles,
the diagonal line they make isn't straight. It bulges out just enough to make up for the missing square below.
(, Mon 8 Mar 2004, 22:54, archived)
# erm...
pass.
(, Mon 8 Mar 2004, 22:54, archived)
# Gah! *fits out*
(, Mon 8 Mar 2004, 22:55, archived)
# I've forgotten
but they're not actually the same triangles.

Oh yes - what Norumbegan said.
(, Mon 8 Mar 2004, 22:56, archived)
# I like this one.
Still always amazes me:
www.optillusions.com/dp/1-67.htm
(, Mon 8 Mar 2004, 22:57, archived)
# indeed
a queer one that
(, Mon 8 Mar 2004, 22:58, archived)
# that one
is totaly mind fuck.
(, Mon 8 Mar 2004, 22:58, archived)
# i actually
loaded that into photoshop to check.

the mind boggles....

(, Mon 8 Mar 2004, 23:12, archived)
# they are not triangles.
they are actually pentagons is disguise
(, Mon 8 Mar 2004, 22:59, archived)
# argh
thats in that ruddy mystery of time and space game, which annoyed the hell out of me. never could do it.
(, Mon 8 Mar 2004, 23:01, archived)
# heehee
its driving me quite mad..... MAD I TELLS YA
(, Mon 8 Mar 2004, 23:06, archived)