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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 25 Oct 1997.
Re: Illusions and impossible things :)

Re: Illusions and impossible things :)

In article <yAA...@tomh.demon.co.uk>, Tom Harvey writes:
>In article <344...@comports.com> writes 
>>>              Y________
>>>              /\   .   \
>>>             /  \.......\
>>>            /    \(3).   \
>>>           /      \___.___\X
>>>           \      /       /
>>>         ___\    /   ____/___
>>>        /\   \  /   /\   .   \
>>>       /  \...\/___/  \.......\
>>>      /    \(1).   \   \(2).   \
>>>     /      \___.___\   \___.___\
>>>     \      /       /   /       /
>>>      \    /       /   /       /
>>>       \  /       /\  /       /
>>>        \/_______/  \/_______/ 'logicko'
>>>        Z
>>
>>what so impossible about this,
>>it looks like 3 cube
>>looks like cube 1 place on top of cube 2 cover a corner of cube2
>>and cube 3 place on top the side of it 
>>
>The bottom of cubes 1 and 2 are in line. The top of cube 1, however, is
>further back (being behind cube 3) than the top of cube 2, even though
>they appear to be balanced at the same angle.

I cannot make head or tail of what you are saying. Probably because
your assignment of "top", "bottom", "front", "back" is unclear.
Let's look at the thing in the XY plane:

                     X
                     |________________
               z=2.0/|       :       |z=2.0
                   / |       :       |            So, er,
             z=1.5/  |       :       |          what's the problem?
                 /'  |-------+-------|
           z=1.0/ : '|       :       |
                | :' |       :       |
                | '  |_______:_______|__________Y
        ________|': /       .        /z=2.0
  z=1.0/|       | :/........________/________
      / |       | /       /|        :        |z=1.5
z=0.5/  |.......|/_______/ |        :        |
    /: '|       :       :  |        :        |
z=0/ :' |       :       :  |........;........|
   | '  |       :       : '|        :        |
   |':  |_______:_______:' |        :        |
   | : /       .       /:  |        :        |
   | '/.......,......./ :  |________:________|z=1.5
   | /       .       /| : /        .         /
   |/_______._______/ | '/........,........./z=1.5
  /                   | /        .         /
 Z                    |/________._________/z=0.5
                          
                                            |~/           |~/
~~|;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;||';-._.-;'^';||_.-;'^'0-|~~
P |      Woof Woof, Glug Glug               ||____________||      0  | P
O |   Who Drowned the Judge's Dog?          | . . . . . . . '----. 0 | O
O |         answers on                  *---|_______________  @__o0  | O
L |{a href="news:alt.religion.scientology"}{/a}_____________|/_______| L
and{a href="http://www.xemu.demon.co.uk/clam/lynx/q0.html"}{/a}XemuSP4(:)

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From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Illusions and impossible things :)
Date: 1997/10/25
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