“Impossible waterfall” Movie
“mcwolles”, a
German
design student, created this brilliant object in 2011. It is a wooden replica
of the water path from Eschers lithograph “Waterfall” from 1961. If you watch this
real-life movie, you will see water running upwards and driving a water mill…
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Movie hosted here with mcwolles’ kind permission. I exerpted and cropped the rendition
as seen on his YouTube page. There you can also catch a glimpse of himself. Talk
of a genius in a garage!
Of course, there are tricks to it, actually two.
First, the shape only appears “impossible” from one single view angle. The basic
impossible shape is composed of two Penrose triangles. I mentioned the close interaction
of Escher and the Penroses on my earlier
presentation of the “impossible” movie “Halluci”.
Second, there is a trick to the waterflow. While I have a strong suspicion, I will
not disclose it here until the creator does so himself in his forthcoming “making
of”.
The (somewhat dispappointing) solution us here and here is a crafty simulation explaining
it well.
Source
mcwolles’
YouTube page
M. C. Escher’s original image is presented and discussed on Wikipedia.
Created: 2007-10-06
Last update: 2013-10-04