Waterfall optical illusion Revealed - 3D explanation

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  • Опубликовано: 3 янв 2025

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  • @joshmclendon3718
    @joshmclendon3718 11 лет назад +165

    I can't believe you spent so much time modeling and animating this whole thing.

    • @LookingMercury3D
      @LookingMercury3D  7 лет назад +12

      At that time it took me 3 days, now it would take one day and much.. MUCH better

    • @eing1464
      @eing1464 7 лет назад +3

      He got 2mj views out off it :)

    • @dinkaDPB
      @dinkaDPB 6 лет назад +1

      i thought i was the only person who thought that.

    • @johntan6189
      @johntan6189 6 лет назад

      1

    • @calebormsby6351
      @calebormsby6351 4 года назад +2

      Not all heroes wear capes!! Appreciate your work man! Great explanation! 🤯

  • @russellwhite87
    @russellwhite87 10 лет назад +236

    My opinion.. It's not not an optical illusion but more of video editing. When you edit you can make anything an illusion

    • @LookingMercury3D
      @LookingMercury3D  10 лет назад +6

      Yes; like a studio illusionist

    • @MrNadawoo
      @MrNadawoo 10 лет назад +3

      "It's made by computer", the magical sentence. This video gave the (almost) simple explanation, why to suppose there are complicated special effects ? :)

    • @Vousie
      @Vousie 10 лет назад +5

      Clémentin Well, really it's made with optical illusion *and* video splicing - the optical illusion is very necessary. You can't simply say "computer", because the simplest way - realistically 3D animating the whole thing - can't be done on the time/budget that a normal person doesn't have. So you gotta say *how* the computer was used.

    • @MrNadawoo
      @MrNadawoo 10 лет назад

      Vousie V I think you reply to Josh White (the first poster) because he said that, not me. ;)

    • @zamirprod.9033
      @zamirprod.9033 9 лет назад +1

      Well, it's still an optical illusion from the way it's built as far as the way the structure appears to connect together as an upward slide shown from one angle. The video illusion seems to be a masking out effect which could be done with Adobe Aftereffects a little extra work than just a simple video editing. But I get your point, it's kind of half and half.

  • @fluchterschoen
    @fluchterschoen 10 лет назад +6

    Very, very skillful animation! Beautiful job, and I love that Professor Farnsworth took time off filming to participate!

  • @tulpar5850
    @tulpar5850 9 лет назад +14

    This music makes me feel like someone is confessing to a murder on CSI

  • @LithoidFilms
    @LithoidFilms 11 лет назад +2

    Everyone disapointed knowing that it didnt happen should be impressed by how well made the original video was that it could make the illusion that smooth despite cutting 3 videos into one let alone building the structure itself.

  • @TheMatthewDMerrill
    @TheMatthewDMerrill 8 лет назад +20

    Thumbs up for Professor Farnsworth.

    • @Bryophytan
      @Bryophytan 6 лет назад

      I thought he was Dr Nefario but sure...

  • @kirakeeney
    @kirakeeney 10 лет назад +6

    Thank you so much for this video! This illusion was driving me crazy!

  • @08grad2010
    @08grad2010 11 лет назад +3

    Farnsworth: "Good news everyone! I've invented free energy!"
    Everyoneelse: "really??"
    Farnsworth: "No not really"

  • @vegasjack1
    @vegasjack1 9 лет назад

    The little animated character is the best thing of the video

  • @BeybladeMadne55
    @BeybladeMadne55 9 лет назад +15

    1:01 - 1:57 The ''water'' looks gallium.

  • @jukechuu
    @jukechuu 9 лет назад

    the actual video isnt edited the thing has been built so it looks normal to us in that specific angle, go look videos like "impossible ball illusion" where in some videos shows how the thing has been built and is shown from different directions :)

  • @syrusbliz
    @syrusbliz 11 лет назад +2

    This is extremely cool and clever, thanks for the explanation!

  • @toddmaggio2032
    @toddmaggio2032 10 лет назад +1

    That is what I call ART. Bravo

  • @SeraphicSin
    @SeraphicSin 11 лет назад

    It's Professor Farnsworth, beloved character from the hit television show, Futurama.

  • @lessonmet4601
    @lessonmet4601 10 лет назад +11

    Professor Farmsworth??

  • @HikaruFER
    @HikaruFER 9 лет назад +10

    Awesome! also, good that u add professor farnsworth xD!

  • @stenoch
    @stenoch 8 лет назад +1

    Love the illusion, really love it with the Prof!

  • @kperry5000
    @kperry5000 11 лет назад +1

    thanks for that, very clearly explained. Great animations too btw!

  • @hauntsywauntsy
    @hauntsywauntsy 10 лет назад +18

    Good news everyone!

  • @eschelar
    @eschelar 10 лет назад

    lastly, remember to use good lighting, a good camera and contrasting colors so you can actually *SEE* what is going on.
    I had no idea what was being shown until the explanation. Kinda takes the fun out of the finished product.

  • @MsBonnieArt
    @MsBonnieArt 9 лет назад +11

    well, i guess fry's still not going to understand anything he showed

  • @JonathonNeville
    @JonathonNeville 3 года назад

    echoing another's comment: "Now I can rest in peace." Thanks for the explanation.

  • @joshuabrown9643
    @joshuabrown9643 11 лет назад

    Very clever. I'd like to build a fountain that looks exactly the same but has pumps to move the water up the three stages...I think it can be done with a little work.

  • @PjCoolButNice6119
    @PjCoolButNice6119 4 года назад +1

    Thanks for the explanation of its I'm gonna build it in my minecraft world

  • @TheRedditArmy
    @TheRedditArmy 10 лет назад +13

    Le Reddit Army is here... for science!

    • @T_Science
      @T_Science 10 лет назад +36

      This is why nobody likes us. Shut the fuck up, there is no Reddit army.

    • @coffeedude7
      @coffeedude7 10 лет назад +9

      Santo Tiralosi
      Seriously. I love Reddit but these 12 year oolds piss me off.

    • @wogudoag
      @wogudoag 10 лет назад

      ssshh people will think you're not being ironic

    • @zdf46
      @zdf46 10 лет назад +6

      there is a special place on 9gag for people like you -_-

    • @KernelPanic
      @KernelPanic 10 лет назад +1

      Santo Tiralosi
      There is no us.

  • @BrockAband
    @BrockAband 9 лет назад +44

    No need to make this sound like the start of a drama movie trailer

    • @Qermaq
      @Qermaq 9 лет назад +2

      +Brock Aband I dunno I dug the jam

    • @jeanhodgson8623
      @jeanhodgson8623 9 лет назад +1

      The music is very nice, though. Great chord voicings

  • @Pilzli
    @Pilzli 11 лет назад +1

    Can someone tell me the name of the soundtrack? I think it's beautiful :)

    • @jefflokanata
      @jefflokanata 11 лет назад +1

      some of it is, Arvo Pärt.. may be you can look 'fratres'
      rest of it, i dont know :D

    • @Pilzli
      @Pilzli 11 лет назад

      Thank you very much ^^

    • @dunnokki
      @dunnokki 11 лет назад +1

      Thomas Newman - Yes (Meet Joe Black soundtrack)

  • @dgontar
    @dgontar 10 лет назад

    Is that the music to the movie "A Beautiful Mind"?

    • @jakehopes9815
      @jakehopes9815 10 лет назад

      The music is an excerpt from Arvo Part's Fratres.

  • @musliminkarben
    @musliminkarben 9 лет назад

    how to make that animation?

  • @legitname6687
    @legitname6687 9 лет назад

    No I don't think it has anything to do with video editing. It's actually downhill just forced perspective to make it look uphill. Go see brusspup's impossible balls illusion to see what I mean

  • @smarty20two
    @smarty20two 11 лет назад

    Nice. But you can obviously note that the water flow is stronger at the junctions where you are connecting the videos, but that can be fixed! Anyways, good video!

  • @F1pateli
    @F1pateli 12 лет назад

    I guess that it is possible to do with movie makers softwares as you propose, but even there I find it a rather convoluted and complicated explanation (which I don't entirely get BTW).
    Here's a much simpler explanation /watch?v=Lwm-yGCjOjU.
    At the point where the guy says "notice the behaviour of the liquid. Certainly not caused by gravity alone",...
    ... he failed to mention the key point that there may be a hidden little hose pumping the water onto that section of the structure

  • @NuffMan_
    @NuffMan_ 11 лет назад +18

    Koska Kuvaton

  • @LookingMercury3D
    @LookingMercury3D  11 лет назад

    From the Meet Joe Black's Sound Track - (Meet Joe Black)

  • @snowrose124
    @snowrose124 10 лет назад

    pause and repause it in order to work??

  • @reece5180
    @reece5180 10 лет назад

    Oh, hey, look! It's Futurama's Professor Farnsworth!

  • @mickaelherzock323
    @mickaelherzock323 11 лет назад

    Optical illusions based on camera angles are awesome. But I'm missing the point of this one? It's supposed to make us think that the water is going in a full circle by going up. But there's so much video editing, that it cancels the idea.

  • @br123mn
    @br123mn 11 лет назад

    what's this piano song called?? awesome illusion btw xD

  • @mystico2108
    @mystico2108 11 лет назад +53

    Came here because of 9gag.

  • @bellafitzpatrick762
    @bellafitzpatrick762 11 лет назад

    Why'd you use the proffesor from futerama

  • @darwinsimmons1
    @darwinsimmons1 9 лет назад +1

    Very nice work!

  • @TheAmishUpload
    @TheAmishUpload 9 лет назад +1

    That little scientist guy is terrifying.

  • @SuperSaiyanWii
    @SuperSaiyanWii 10 лет назад +4

    This was pretty lame. Anything that requires video-editing like this is NOT an illusion, which is "a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses." What we're watching here is just a couple videos blended together.

  • @LookingMercury3D
    @LookingMercury3D  11 лет назад

    With What?

  • @rickpowell6324
    @rickpowell6324 9 лет назад

    This can be simplified. I saw one in person at Ripleys Believe It Or Not museum that was operating continually - no merging of videos. The trick was all about the angles and the viewer could only see it head-on (no side views). The final water flow coming down was actually a slender clear hard plastic tube with water being pumped up to the top and then flowing down around the outside of the tube to give the impression it was only flowing down. This one here is too complex and cannot be viewed in person without giving away the secret.

    • @ycaruzob
      @ycaruzob 8 лет назад

      +Rick Powell; it's hard MC Escher ask you can make Waterfall test with proof water infinity!
      DaVinci compared MC Escher are legendary secrets!!

  • @fractaliteration8317
    @fractaliteration8317 10 лет назад

    Thanks ! good explanation, could you do an explanation for the Escherian stairwell as well?

  • @ObachtMathe
    @ObachtMathe 7 лет назад

    Thank you for the good explanation 👍👍

  • @lordcripplus5046
    @lordcripplus5046 9 лет назад +20

    That old man looks like from a cartoon show called Futurama

    • @killdeamon
      @killdeamon 9 лет назад

      +TheWildGamer 3:13 ;)

    • @hayhay7789
      @hayhay7789 8 лет назад +5

      how stupid are you

    • @MartinClimbs
      @MartinClimbs 8 лет назад

      +Canonical solid 10/10

    • @blastromlifyedah
      @blastromlifyedah 8 лет назад +2

      +Canonical If you are going to be rude. Be rude somewhere else. Because that guy is just saying and we don't need geniuses showing off their "smarty blah blah".

    • @hayhay7789
      @hayhay7789 8 лет назад +2

      Casual Falcon 101​ You realize it IS Professor Farnsworth, right? It looks like him because it IS him? He's an idiot for not realizing that and you're an idiot for thinking I'm going to listen to some beta douche like yourself tell me not to be blunt.

  • @TERRYBIGGENDEN
    @TERRYBIGGENDEN 2 года назад

    Absolutely wonderful work! :-)

  • @lostn65
    @lostn65 4 года назад +1

    that's nice and all but the guy physically built the structure, not modeled it in a computer.

  • @dlorah_kent
    @dlorah_kent 7 лет назад

    How about the escherian stairwell illusion that makes me believe it's real? Can you explain it?

  • @Swagmittens
    @Swagmittens 8 лет назад

    Basically this video explains that it can not be done and it was computer generated?

  • @LookingMercury3D
    @LookingMercury3D  12 лет назад

    Hey.. Just one emiter with simple volume Hyper Voxels

  • @kimberpritty2475
    @kimberpritty2475 11 лет назад

    DylonMonroeVideos ... it's called a philtral dimple and if you look in the mirror, you will notice you have one too!

  • @mmchang2114
    @mmchang2114 9 лет назад

    it's not really going up its just on the floor and it looks like it

  • @MagicalUnicorn1452
    @MagicalUnicorn1452 12 лет назад

    But how does the water go to the top of it just goes outside????

  • @doriandrevon8330
    @doriandrevon8330 9 лет назад

    wonderful illusion great work

  • @viz0rgaming503
    @viz0rgaming503 9 лет назад

    What is that soundtrack?

  • @LamiroyTom
    @LamiroyTom 11 лет назад +2

    Not sure why they decided to use that mysterious type of professor

  • @prumchhangsreng979
    @prumchhangsreng979 9 лет назад

    u use cineme4D?

  • @llamajoeteam
    @llamajoeteam 9 лет назад +1

    Why are there so many dislikes? do people hate explanations?

    • @dlwatib
      @dlwatib 9 лет назад +4

      +llamajoeteam Probably because he spilled so much "water". What a waste! Children in Africa could have drunk that water!

    • @apexmike849
      @apexmike849 9 лет назад

      +hypercookie sloth Yes, but maybe he thought that Africans could get drunk on that water and left the fire out?

  • @MrTomatoScript
    @MrTomatoScript 5 лет назад

    ???? I still don't understand

  • @thdmtr
    @thdmtr 5 лет назад

    what is the background song name?

  • @tr2thed
    @tr2thed 4 года назад

    Mom, I’m 8 years late. Where’s the time machine?!

  • @tushardhepe2881
    @tushardhepe2881 6 лет назад

    Nicely Explained...!!!

  • @MattG2105
    @MattG2105 11 лет назад

    Where do I know that scientist-guy from!?

  • @zoeychevalier5132
    @zoeychevalier5132 8 лет назад

    What music is this from?

    • @maushgw
      @maushgw 8 лет назад

      It's from the soundtrack of the movie "Meeting Joe Black".

  • @TedESim
    @TedESim 11 лет назад

    what song is that in the bg?

  • @999nizami999
    @999nizami999 11 лет назад

    Meet Joe Black- Thomas Newman performed by The City of Prague Philarmonic Orchestra

  • @funkychunky67
    @funkychunky67 11 лет назад

    the 10 amazing opitcal illusions is cool, right

  • @areallylongnamethatyourest6509
    @areallylongnamethatyourest6509 8 лет назад

    I think you mean synchronized. You spelled it wrong.

  • @dmitribovski1292
    @dmitribovski1292 7 лет назад

    I'm not convinced with your explanation having built a working one of these.
    I'm just not convinced anyone would go to the effort of working out how to construct the 3D version and not workout how to fit the pipes and pumps.

  • @Zanthxs
    @Zanthxs 9 лет назад

    This music was used in a film but I can't recall it, cool vid though!

  • @thomasbruinsma
    @thomasbruinsma 10 лет назад

    Is this fallout 3 music?

  • @RealQuin
    @RealQuin 9 лет назад

    whats the music? I like it
    also great explanation video

    • @sebastianww7791
      @sebastianww7791 9 лет назад

      ***** i don't know but is from a game "dreamfall chapters"

    • @jeanhodgson8623
      @jeanhodgson8623 9 лет назад

      It's excellent.

    • @jeanhodgson8623
      @jeanhodgson8623 9 лет назад

      Thanks for the tipoff. I found a long section of it on RUclips. Great composition and very sensitive performance. Five stars.

    • @haleymyers5751
      @haleymyers5751 8 лет назад

      +Walla Walla Bing Bang I figured it out!!! It's "Yes by Thomas Newman" The movie you might have been thinking of was Meet Joe Black. I knew I recognized the song too!! I use to listen to the soundtrack all the time and it just clicked. I hope that helped!

  • @br123mn
    @br123mn 11 лет назад

    could anyone please tell me the name of this song?

  • @sambenjamin6321
    @sambenjamin6321 9 лет назад

    Whey did he use the scientist from futureama

  • @abomustafaking5593
    @abomustafaking5593 8 лет назад

    What types of pens colors pleas

  • @eli121
    @eli121 10 лет назад

    Además, la vision que la observamos es con un ojo (el de la cámara), si estuviéramos allí y lo viéramos con dos ojos no habría ilusión, yo creo.

  • @rasoros
    @rasoros 11 лет назад

    This makes sense now.. and I'm disappointed by the original trickery now that I understand how they did it :(

  • @happymangamingfun
    @happymangamingfun 11 лет назад +5

    anyone else notice the professor from futurama?

    • @michaelkaybecker
      @michaelkaybecker 10 лет назад +2

      ha that's the only thing i could think of. how weird it was to see professor Farnsworth in 3d

    • @CombraStudios
      @CombraStudios 9 лет назад +1

      No I didn't

  • @aarondfilms
    @aarondfilms 12 лет назад

    what song is this?

  • @TutoLab
    @TutoLab 7 лет назад

    you could animate the hole thing with some software, even the guy.

  • @volkerbussmann1332
    @volkerbussmann1332 8 лет назад

    @Josh White ...Have a lock on my icon on the left

  • @kylewilcrout5474
    @kylewilcrout5474 11 лет назад

    i'm still lost in the first part the water fall down and make the wheel spin. there is not the in the 3d picture after i'm more lost then before.

  • @-_Nuke_-
    @-_Nuke_- 9 лет назад

    lol the fact that they had to make a 3d animation its mindblowing to me -.-

  • @worldeater07
    @worldeater07 8 лет назад

    pk il y a un mec de Futurama?

  • @CombraStudios
    @CombraStudios 11 лет назад

    You do not say?

  •  11 лет назад

    You could have built it so that the water doesn't fall outside (from 3rd to 1st level),

  • @nathanbocquet7332
    @nathanbocquet7332 9 лет назад

    Bonjour Monsieur Jean Paul

  • @RetroGamerVX
    @RetroGamerVX 11 лет назад +1

    Aha, that explains the wet floor all around it :o)

  • @izzhamulzzang4571
    @izzhamulzzang4571 7 лет назад

    that is not invention or illusion. that is editing in rendering software.

  • @patrickhodson8715
    @patrickhodson8715 8 лет назад +1

    mostrated is not a word in English.
    you want "shown"

    • @szymon170able
      @szymon170able 8 лет назад

      Maybe he isn't from an English speaking country.

    • @patrickhodson8715
      @patrickhodson8715 8 лет назад

      Yes, that is why I made the comment...

  • @jeffreyvences4361
    @jeffreyvences4361 6 лет назад

    2:38 Synchronized*

  • @LookingMercury3D
    @LookingMercury3D  12 лет назад

    Never the Water go Upside Brittanny, just an optical ilusion from the Owner.. But very well do it from him.. See my video again ;)

  • @lepaul26
    @lepaul26 10 лет назад

    This is not an illusion! This is video editing !

  • @plushalfling9971
    @plushalfling9971 8 лет назад +2

    GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!

  • @TEMAOHI2787
    @TEMAOHI2787 11 лет назад

    Nice Video!.....Nice MUSIC!!!

  • @matthewalcala6975
    @matthewalcala6975 8 лет назад

    What;s that creepy thing building this?

  • @ycaruzob
    @ycaruzob 9 лет назад +3

    I DON'T WANT LIKE THIS PLANET ANYMORE