Original Usenet thread from rec.arts.ascii, started 17 Oct 1994.
REPOST: Illusions
rec.arts.ascii
· 3 messages · 17 Oct 1994 - 21 Oct 1994
It is said that life is just an illusion, but sometimes illusions
just come to life! See for yourself.
First, let's take a three dimentional image of 'an upside down U':
,a,
,ad8""Y8a,
,ad8"" "Y8a,
,ad8"" "Y8a,
,ad8"" "Y8a,
,ad8"" ,ad8a, "Y8a,
,ad8"" ,ad8"" "8Y8a, "Y8a,
,ad8"" ,ad8"" 8 "Y8a, "Y8a,
,ad8"" ,ad8"" 8 "Y8a, "Y8a,
ad8Y" ,ad8"" ,ad88a, "Y8a, "Y8a,
8 "Y8a, ,ad8"" ,ad8"" "Y8a, ,ad8"" ,ad8"8
8 "Y8ad8"" ,ad8"" Y888"" ,ad8"" 8
8 8" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" 8
8 8 ,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,8
"Y8a, 8 ,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,ad8""
"Y8a8ad8"" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,ad8""
"Y" ad8Y" ,ad8"" ,ad8""
8 "Y8a, ,ad8"" ,ad8""
8 "Y8ad8"" ,ad8""
8 8" ,ad8""
8 8 ,ad8""
"Y8a, 8 ,ad8""
"Y8a8ad8""
"8"
Then, let's take 3 cylinders of the same width:
,dPPRg,
,ad8"" `Yb
,ad8"" (8
,ad8"" ,adP
,ad8"" ,ad8""
,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,dPPRg,
,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" `Yb
,gPPR8, ,ad8"" ,ad8"" (8
dP' `Yb ,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,adP
8) (8,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,ad8""
Yb d8P" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,dPPRg,
"8ggg8" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" `Yb
,gPPR8, ,ad8"" ,ad8"" (8
dP' `Yb ,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,adP
8) (8,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,ad8""
Yb d8P" ,ad8"" ,ad8""
"8ggg8" ,ad8"" ,ad8""
,gPPR8, ,ad8""
dP' `Yb ,ad8""
8) (8,ad8""
Yb d8P"
"8ggg8"
Now, let's merge the two together and this is what we get:
,a,
,ad8""Y8a,
,ad8"" "Y8a,
,ad8"" "Y8a,
,ad8"" "Y8a,
,ad8"" ,ad8a, "Y8a,
,ad8"" ,ad8"" "8Y8a, "Y8a,
,ad8"" ,ad8"" 8 "Y8a, "Y8a,
,ad8"" ,ad8"" 8 "Y8a, "Y8a,
,gPPR8, ,ad8"" ,ad88a, "Y8a, "Y8a,
dP' `Yb ,ad8"" ,ad8"" "Y8a, ,ad8"" ,ad8"8
8) (8,ad8"" ,ad8"" Y888"" ,ad8"" 8
Yb d8P" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" 8
"8ggg8" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,8
,gPPR8, ,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,ad8""
dP' `Yb ,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,ad8""
8) (8,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,ad8""
Yb d8P" ,ad8"" ,ad8""
"8ggg8" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" Normand
,gPPR8, ,ad8"" Veilleux
dP' `Yb ,ad8""
8) (8,ad8""
Yb d8P"
"8ggg8"
Get the picture? :-)
Here are other illusions that I have made. Some were based on other
people's work.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,
8 8"b, "Ya
8 8 "b, "Ya
8 aaaaaaa8, "b, "Ya
8 8"b, "Ya "8""""""8
8 8 "b, "Ya 8 8
8 aaaaaaa8, "b, "Ya8 8
8 A 8"b, "Ya "8""""""" 8
8 8 "b, "Ya 8 8
8 aaaaaaa8, "b, "Ya8 B 8
8 8"b, "Ya "8""""""" 8
8 8 "b, "Ya 8 8
8aaaaaa8, "b, "Ya8 8
8"b, "Ya "8""""""" 8
8 "b, "Ya 8 8
8, "b, "Ya8 8
"Ya "8""""""" 8
"Ya 8 8
"Ya8 Normand Veilleux 8
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
,aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
d' 8
,P' 8
,dbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 8
8 d"8 8
8 d' 8 8
8 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad' 8 8
8 8 8 8 8 8
8 8 8 8 8 8
8 8 ,8aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa8aaa8 8
8 8 ,P 8
8 8,P 8
8 8baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad'
8 d'
8 d'
8aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaP'
Normand Veilleux
,aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
,d" ,d"8
,d" ,d" 8
,d" ,aaaaaaaaaaa ,d" 8
,d" ,d"8 ,d" ,d" 8
,d" ,d" 8 ,d" ,d" ,8
,d" ,d" 8 ,d" ,d" ,d"
,d" ,d" 8,d" ,d" ,d"
,d" ,d" ,8" ,d" ,d"
,d" ,d" ,d" ,d" ,d"
,PaaaaaaaaaaP ,d" ,d" ,d"
8 8 ,d" ,d" ,d"
8 8 ,d" ,d" ,d"
8 8 ,d" ,d" ,d"
8 8,d" ,d" ,d"
8aaaaaaaaaa8P ,d" ,d" Normand
8 8 ,d" ,d" Veilleux
8 8 ,d" ,d"
8 8 ,d" ,d"
8 8,d" ,d"
8aaaaaaaaaa8P ,d"
8 8 ,d"
8 8 ,d"
8 8 ,d"
8 8,d"
8aaaaaaaaaa8P
In article <37uq5q$ca...@gagme.wwa.com>, Normand Veilleux <nve...@emr1.emr.ca> wrote: > >It is said that life is just an illusion, but sometimes illusions >just come to life! See for yourself. > > ,a, > ,ad8""Y8a, > ,ad8"" "Y8a, > ,ad8"" "Y8a, > ,ad8"" "Y8a, > ,ad8"" ,ad8a, "Y8a, > ,ad8"" ,ad8"" "8Y8a, "Y8a, > ,ad8"" ,ad8"" 8 "Y8a, "Y8a, > ,ad8"" ,ad8"" 8 "Y8a, "Y8a, > ,gPPR8, ,ad8"" ,ad88a, "Y8a, "Y8a, > dP' `Yb ,ad8"" ,ad8"" "Y8a, ,ad8"" ,ad8"8 > 8) (8,ad8"" ,ad8"" Y888"" ,ad8"" 8 > Yb d8P" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" 8 > "8ggg8" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,8 > ,gPPR8, ,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" > dP' `Yb ,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" > 8) (8,ad8"" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" > Yb d8P" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" > "8ggg8" ,ad8"" ,ad8"" Normand > ,gPPR8, ,ad8"" Veilleux > dP' `Yb ,ad8"" > 8) (8,ad8"" > Yb d8P" > "8ggg8" > >Get the picture? :-) Does anyone remember this figure as the original "trichometric indicator support" that was first pictured in Mad Magazine way back sometime in the sixties? Ye gads! -- Nance Colucci att!iepuba!colucci * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * You're only as good as your last pedicure.
Normand Veilleux (nve...@emr1.emr.ca) wrote:
: It is said that life is just an illusion, but sometimes illusions
: just come to life! See for yourself.
I think you've been looking at the screen for too long dude! ;-)
This is a collection that I picked up from PH, who I have a sneaking
suspicion has finished college - hence no userID any more....
It looks like he was a fan as he's got your illusion drawings as well!
Hope it's good.....
DR J
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| | _____ | | _____ | | _____ | | - a poor attempt at
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | a 3d picture.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Unfocus your eyes, and
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | you probably still
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Clara Fitzgerald uses in her sig a variation on Escher's
famous fork:
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|__________________________/
Here is a larger version of that variation:
,aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
d' 8
,P' 8
,dbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 8
8 d"8 8
8 d' 8 8
8 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad' 8 8
8 8 8 8 8 8
8 8 8 8 8 8
8 8 ,8aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa8aaa8 8
8 8 ,P 8
8 8,P 8
8 8baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad'
8 d'
8 d'
8aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaP'
Normand Veilleux
And here is a variation on one of PH's diagrams:
,aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
,d" ,d"8
,d" ,d" 8
,d" ,aaaaaaaaaaa ,d" 8
,d" ,d"8 ,d" ,d" 8
,d" ,d" 8 ,d" ,d" ,8
,d" ,d" 8 ,d" ,d" ,d"
,d" ,d" 8,d" ,d" ,d"
,d" ,d" ,8" ,d" ,d"
,d" ,d" ,d" ,d" ,d"
,PaaaaaaaaaaP ,d" ,d" ,d"
8 8 ,d" ,d" ,d"
8 8 ,d" ,d" ,d"
8 8 ,d" ,d" ,d"
8 8,d" ,d" ,d"
8aaaaaaaaaa8P ,d" ,d"
8 8 ,d" ,d"
8 8 ,d" ,d" Normand
8 8 ,d" ,d" Veilleux
8 8,d" ,d"
8aaaaaaaaaa8P ,d"
8 8 ,d"
8 8 ,d"
8 8 ,d"
8 8,d"
8aaaaaaaaaa8P
--
Normand Veilleux
nve...@emr1.emr.ca
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Here are two I made. The first used to be my sig.
__ ___________
|\G\ |\ ________\
| \r\ | \ \_____ |
| \e\ \S\ \ | |d| Life is like a grapefruit:
| \a\ \t\ \ | |a| it's sort of orangy-yellow
| |\ \t\ \e\ \| | | and dimpled on the outside,
| | \ \i\ \p\ | |S| wet and squidgy in the middle.
| |f|\ \n\ \h\| |i| It's got pips inside too...
| |r| \ \g\ \a| |l| Oh, and some people have half
| |o|__\_\s\ \n |v| a one for breakfast.
| |m|_______\ \ |a|
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Sil...@STPC.WI.LeidenUniv.NL || SdS...@STHP.WI.LeidenUniv.NL
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| | ___________________ |
| Torbj|rn Andersson | / ________________() "Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 |
| Kantorsgatan 8:415 | / /|______________ iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi |
| 754 24 Uppsala | / /_/_____________() wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt |
| Sweden | /__________________ speling in ius xrewawt xe |
| 018 - 26 07 66 | |_________________() Ingliy-spiking werld." |
| | -- Mark Twain |
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Mr Whippy - Andy Harrison - and...@cogs.susx.ac.uk
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