SRL Archive - Graphics and Multimedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox

My head hurts >.<

It makes the first cut, lifts up the piece and it grows down as its translating over to hide the fact that it is regrowing.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh make it stop just make it stop already :(

From: Hobbit
It makes the first cut, lifts up the piece and it grows down as its translating over to hide the fact that it is regrowing.

Thankyou XD

Yeah you can see exactly as Hobbit says. As you watch the piece move over to up right, it grows down a bit giving the illusion that it was still the same piece.

Was wondering wtf at first, but if you watch closer you can see it.

Haha thats pretty good.

Very (n)eat indeed !

its not a trick, highlight my first post to see the link

Pretty sure its magic. Watched it couple times and its legit!

From: Enslaved
its not a trick, highlight my first post to see the link

You are assuming that every geometry applies to our world, when in fact no geometry fully applies to our world. There are debates on which geometries best describe our world but they are yet to come up with one which can can describe it completely. Banach-Tarski's paradox is theoretic geometry, it does not apply to our physical world and the rules it is bound by. And since our computers and the images displayed on their screen exist in our world they are also bound by our rules. The portion on the left of the picture below is the pieces reassembled of the gif above from a screen capture taken right at the moment it split. The portion on the right is the original bar of chocolate. You will notice there is a height different that could be filled by chopping the extra portion into smaller pieces across the top of the left bar.

tl;dr It is a trick (illusion) to demonstrate a theorem from theoretical geometry which does not apply to our physical world.

The neat thing about this is you can make a version of it in real life that looks like it works, too. Until you look carefully at it and realize there are gaps and the lines don't match up.

From: senrath
The neat thing about this is you can make a version of it in real life that looks like it works, too. Until you look carefully at it and realize there are gaps and the lines don't match up.

looks like someone has tried this to get some free chocolate :p

My head hurts :p

From: Enslaved
looks like someone has tried this to get some free chocolate :p

Me? Nah. I actually hate chocolate. I just saw a guy doing this with stone tiles.