Amazing Stairwell Illusion !

[DeSwiss]

MansoourVEVO·Published on May 2, 2013

Magic Stair Illusion

- That's the stairwell I climbed to my success!

[longship]

1. How does it know?

R&K

[TlalocW]

2. Alas... it's fake

I don't even really understand what they were trying to do by trying to make a myth out of it and convince people that it's real. Neat trick, but ultimately a waste of time for an institute of technology, and I'm glad they only got $900+ instead of the $12,000 they were wanting on Kickstarter.

http://www.geeknative.com/39630/the-amazing-escherian-stairwell-illusion-video-and-the-myth/

TlalocW

[silverweb]

5. Weird.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Call me dense, but I don't get the point of faking a myth.

So the video demonstrations of the stairway were faked, too, and the "architectural trick" doesn't really exist? Is that the point? The videos looked real enough.

[TlalocW]

6. Yeah, they were basically wanting people to waste $12,000

To help them perpetuate a myth that there was some "magical" hallway in R.I.T. I'm glad people found better projects to Kickstart. Science and technology should partly be used to lay myths to rest - not getting people believing in the impossible/non-existent.

TlalocW

[silverweb]

7. Sounds like a frat boy prank.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I think if such a stairway was actually created, it could definitely serve a useful educational purpose.

In order to do that, though, an explanation of how the effect is so realistically achieved would need to be part of the presentation -- for people like me, who need stuff explained to them.

[toddwv]

10. No, the videos don't.

They say that the stairs are flat, but you can clearly see that people have to raise their feet to get to the next step...

[demwing]

12. "Although the Kickstarter failed (and videos supporting it are vanishing from the web)..."

So we have a second hand report that this was a failed Kickstarter project, but no proof?

Hmmmm....

[silverweb]

4. Whoa....

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]That's wild!

I want to know how it works!

[LeftofObama]

8. Me too!

Weird!

[Warren DeMontague]

9. I think it works by turning the camera off

and having the person run back up or down before turning it back on.

[Paulie]

11. Twins

easy peasy lemon squeezy

[lpreble]

13. Here is the Kickstarter proposal

Here's the failed Kickstarter proposal, for anyone who wants to see it.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1123493397/the-stairwell-project-building-a-modern-myth

[hrmjustin]

14. Welcome to DU my friend!