• bstix
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      1 year ago

      It all looked like pills to me until I read the text. Couldn’t even see plates for a while.

      Anyway, I noticed that the top right rectangular one doesn’t match the perspective when seen as face down. All the other ones are round, so they don’t insinuate a perspective at all. That’s why that plate is the key.

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        1 year ago

        Shadow says its face up though. There should be a thicker bright line down the side if it was flipped over. The shadow should not have the same depth as all the other dishes.

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          Sort of. This plate sticks out because in order to create a shadow and light this way when facing down it would have to be angled in a way that doesn’t match with the others when also assuming that they’re all placed on the same surface. It only looks right with the others when seen as face up. The trick here is that we normally assume light to come from the top when given no other clues, but this assumption doesn’t match with our assumption of placement. The text also suggests the wrong way first.

          If the picture had been presented upside down, it might have been difficult to even ee it any other way than the correct one.

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      They all started as face up to me as well. The one that stood out to me though was the rectangular plate in the top right. That plate looked face down to me which then triggered all the plates to look face down.

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      11 months ago

      I have tried some of the “tricks” in the comments and none work for me. Try as I might, I can only see them as face up and nothing else. It doesn’t make sense to me that they could ever appear face down because the lighting wouldn’t make sense.

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        11 months ago

        I got to see them upside down for a moment and it does not look correct. They are actually face up in the picture but it is possible to trick yourself into seeing them as upside down but they don’t look like they would if they really were

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    11 months ago

    They’re all face-up with the lighting from the right.

    If I try to see them as face down they become distorted. The lighting is wrong.

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    11 months ago

    Hypothesis: they are really all face up, but if you read about them being face down before paying attention to the picture your brain turns them face down until one of them triggers the correct position.

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      My brain must be stupid cuz I looked at the picture first and they looked face down :/

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        No, it’s just that there is no reference, so it is perfectly possible to see them facing down in the first place before reading.

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      1 year ago

      It’s a badly JPG’d picture of segmented dishes, but the description says they’re face down… which is wrong, given the way the light hits them. This is just a bad post.

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    11 months ago

    I can flip them back and forth at will, I think I finally found my super power!

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    I think it’s the shadow cast onto the largest round plate by the lower divided round plate

    Without that shadow, the plates could be face-down and illuminated from the left, but the shadow would only exist if the light source is on the right, so it snaps everything to conform to that