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Pretty sure that portion is where the trick is.

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Yes, absolutely. If you cover that wall with your hand, the other 3 jump back into good ol' mundane perspective.  

Then there's also that telltale shrinkage of the blue ball (not part of the original work) on the two corner-steps closest to the viewer.

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I'm probably not sociopathic.

Few things end my boredom. The less bored I am, the more easily I'm irritated by a disruption. I hate a hassle. My drunk behavior varies wildly, but I control myself better now than 6 years ago. This "vacation in filth", I prefer the term "slumming".

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Isn't life such a wonderful gift, when you are forced to contemplate the possibility of its demise?

Isn't death the ultimate reward, when life forces you to make a peculiar (either pragmatic or emotional) choice?

Perhaps the stasis we find ourselves in is the best state, as long as it is played upon by the defining forces of reality we survive in?

Or perhaps we all need a meaning to our existence by different methods, suited to both our environment and predispositions?

Or maybe we should just surrender to the complacency provided to us by reality as it is sold to all those who appreciate simple solutions and answers to what bothers their existence at any given, or that which is a provided/purported apprehension that benefits those who think that they have a better answers?

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Well, I'm not sure.  I did try covering one side at a time.  But, I wonder if it is a shadow position, which makes the bottom left indicate a contrary light source to my eyes.  And, I am not a visual artist of any sort...I can't draw that great, even.  But the play of perspective seems to make the top left piece indicate distance through shortening that side.  I dunno...  That shit hypnotises me, even though I am immune to human hypnotism.

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I dont see why you should even care about being a psycho or walking the psycho path. Those online test are crap. The scores they give are way too high.<br />Easily bored:<br />I like to think no, but in reality I lose interest in things absurdly fast.<br />Act strange under the influence of alcohol:<br />When Im sober I have no problems dealing with my aggressiveness and I know what I can and what I cant say, but under the heavy drinks I tend to lose my sense of reality.<br />Easily irritated:<br />It depends. You can insult me all you want and I wont care much, but if you take my things or things I consider mine youll be the first one to notice. And lets not start talking about influence over people. If I feel like losing my direct influence, I can get extraordinary defensive.<br />"Vacation in filth":<br />Ill just say yes to this.

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Really? But look at the sides, the dimensions of the one where I circled make a straight line instead of a stairstep. It's also longer than the shorter side, which is part of what's creating the illusion. The two sides senses of depth aren't properly measured in an architectural sense.

If you sort the actual shape out, you see the image is slightly twisted to create an unrealistic viewpoint. Even the shadows betray this a bit. The longer, deceptive side would be more obvious if the ball didn't change size.

Edit: Look at this:


See? Warped viewpoint.

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Here's a digital 3D mock-up, with the north-east side tweaked on this one most visibly:

- but there are hundreds of spin-offs. 

Escher's original:

 

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Yep, same kite shape, same twisted view.




That tower placement at the right is just plain mean. Even the people's placement hides it. Rather deceptive since Escher's use of fish eye style warping is usually more obvious:

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If you have the patience / attention span / brains (i tend to lack those), you could figure it out for me how/if Werkcmeister's systems apply to it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werckmeister_temperament

"The tunings I (III), II (IV) and III (V) were presented graphically by a cycle of fifths and a list of major thirds, giving the temperament of each in fractions of a comma. Werckmeister used the organbuilder's notation of ^ for a downwards tempered or narrowed interval and v for an upward tempered or widened one. (This appears counterintuitive - it is based on the use of a conical tuning tool which would reshape the ends of the pipes.) A pure fifth is simply a dash. Werckmeister was not explicit about whether the syntonic comma or Pythagorean comma was meant: the difference between them, the so-called schisma, is almost inaudible and he stated that it could be divided up among the fifths.

The last "Septenarius" tuning was not conceived in terms of fractions of a comma, despite some modern authors' attempts to approximate it by some such method. Instead, Werckmeister gave the string lengths on the monochord directly, and from that calculated how each fifth ought to be tempered."  (Etc.)

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