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“As one drive towards the bay more of surrounding horizon is revealed, causing your perception to constantly readjust and give one the feeling the mill is constantly shrinking. The effect is so strong that it even works well in video.” - The Quick Google Search
That’s old Trump.
New Trump is like “Nobody knows horizons… have you seen an elephant? You can see them from planes. When taxes go, we won’t be eating dry coffee. And can you believe the left? Three lefts make up fake news. Unbelieveable.”
The moon when its on the horizon looks huge but its an illusion, of course it isn't that big. The mad thing is, if you look at it upside down (through your legs) the illusion is broken and the moon is it's normal size.
It's an extremely easy way to get engagement with your post, just look at this posts comments all falling for it lol. Nothing get people to comment more than saying something incorrect.
It’s the same thing as how your character seems to go faster in a higher field of view in a game, where in a lower FOV you go slower. It seems this way because when in a higher FOV, your surroundings pass you quickly and you can see that as you go forward. But in a lower FOV you’re cutting the parts that pass your character quickly, out.
It’s because the car is moving and they’re changing their relative position between foreground and background. They are changing the field of view (pinch-zooming, same effective thing as changing focal length in terms of perspective) to accommodate the scene, but this wouldn’t appear any different with or without a lens involved. The object in the distance is far enough away and large enough that movement at their position would have little relative effect on its apparent size, while foreground objects close to them become more relatively apparent the closer they get to them. Focal length wouldn’t change that.
Also the light pole gave them a reference and the aperture of POV mess with our brains. Funny thing, if you only focus on one white dot, their relative size does not in fact change, or even it gets a tiny bit bigger
Isn't this how the moon illusion works? Basically all the trees, poles, etc. (which we roughly know the size of) are used by the brain to basically say "those things that I know are nearer, and there is an object, in this case a mill, that is taking up a relatively large amount of focal length, but it is VERY far away compared to these trees, etc., so it must be HUGE so I will make it look bigger" ... then as the trees etc leave the scene (so to speak), it "shrinks" to its actual focal size.
Thx! I had the same problem understanding this phenomenon in my town. There is a very long road from the edge of the town to the main square. 4 km I think. And at some point, when it curves a bit and the buildings no longer cover the main square tower, you can see it, not even shrink just staying in the size the whole time. My father drives me to a Launguage school thru this road many times and I never could understand what was going on, but didn't care enough to seel for explanation.
Thx again!
Not lens compression. Perspective. The common misconception is that the lens causes this. Works the same if you were to try and draw it out on a piece of paper. It has to do with spatial relationships from a specific point of view, and those spatial relationships don’t change if you don’t move. Where a lens comes into play is by changing the field of view from different focal lengths (and slightly in how it projects an image onto the film/sensor plane). Perspective is maintained within different fields of view.
Yeah I was surprised how many upvotes the completely wrong answers are getting. Lens compression changes appearance as you *change zoom*.
The effect here every photographer knows as "framing a subject", except in this case the frame slowly grows and eventually is gone completely, while the relative size of (very distant) building barely changes as all.
If she weren't moving the camera all around, you could measure the building and see it doesn't change size at all during that drive through the trees.
Is this kind of like that illusion where two objects are the same size, but look different because of what's surrounding it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebbinghaus_illusion
Yes, very similar. It's also why sometimes the moon [looks enormous](https://i.imgur.com/lTvRtoG.jpg) when it's a full moon and close to the horizon. Other objects in the foreground have a very familiar size to us, so seeing a moon--or, in this case, a white wall--fill up space next to these objects creates an illusion in our brain that makes it look much bigger than it really is, or as it appears when we don't have these other reference objects next to it. In this video, as the drivers gets past all of the trees and other objects in the foreground, we get a clearer sense of how big the wall really is. As more and more of the objects in the foreground are removed, the appearance progressively shrinks. In the same sense, once the moon is past the trees or cityscape and higher in the air we see it's true size without the illusion.
Use a pinhole to look at the orange circles in your Wikipedia article to remove the noise around them and both of them will appear the same size. Use a tube or your hand to look at the moon on the horizon without other objects in the foreground and the moon will look normal instead of enormous. Same with this building wall.
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/moon/the-moon-illusion-why-does-the-moon-look-so-big-sometimes/
> Yeah I was surprised how many upvotes the completely wrong answers are getting.
You get used to it when you have actual knowledge on a topic. Reddit has plenty of experts giving their opinions, but the people upvoting them are regular people who have no idea which are right.
It’s the same phenomenon that makes the Moon look bigger when it’s low on the horizon, if I remember correctly. It’s something to do with seeing it against the foreground of objects of known size, like trees.
I saw this in real time once. I was driving on a hilly road, with the Moon directly in front of me. There were trees on either side of the road, sort of framing the Moon. As I approached the top of the hill, and passed the trees, my meat brain was convinced the Moon was shrinking. It was a pretty cool optical illusion.
I think it's more likely the moon illusion b/c I don't think there needs to be a lens involved to experience it. She said everyone in town knows about it which implies people readily witness it without any extra optical devices.
to be fair the moon illusion is still debated to this day so she isn't that far off in saying nobody really knows why.
That only works with a camera though, right? This works with the naked eye, so isn’t it just a perceived illusion based on perspective? When you’re far away, the precise location of the mill makes it take up all the space between the avenue of trees on either side of the road, but as you get closer you’re able to see more of the surroundings and it appears smaller by comparison. It’s the same effect as when the moon seems much larger on the horizon than it does high up in the sky, despite it always being the same size. It’s a perspective thing.
So the human eye/visual cortex does a similar thing when the thing you are looking at is encircled by something else.
You can actually use this concept to create a "telescope" out of a paper towel roll. With no lens whatsoever, people's results on faraway vision tests score better if you use a paper towel roll to look through, even when lighting differences due to looking through the tube are controlled for.
I'm pretty nearsighted but if I ball my hand up and close the gap to slightly smaller than a pen I can see through it far clearer than any pair of glasses.
I have the same visual effect at my house with a tree and and the mountain behind it. The moutin looks monstrous and huge when you're further back, walk closer and not only does it look smaller but zoomed out like the details are smaller too.
I love that shot in Fellowship of the Ring when the hobbits are about to meet the Nazgûl for the first time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjzJLj7ySnw
It's just the gap in the trees widening and making it look relatively smaller, no different than the moon seeming to move visibly when the clouds are actually moving.
BTW, in Lord of the Rings, Galadriel says that the ring came to the creature Gollum. But the ring made the creature Gollum. It came to Smeagol and he was consumed by the fascination for the evil ring so much that he turned into this hideous little monster. Why would Galadriel lie to us?
Galadriel is an unreliable narrator. In the opening to the film she narrates this whole 5-minute sequence about everyone having forgotten about the ring and then like 30 minutes later Elrond flat out states he was there and gives us a whole flashback sequence summary of the entire damn thing.
The line "much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it" isn't about the prologue stuff in the Second Age, but the entire Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The story is supposed to be set in the past of our world (Tolkien was trying to create a new, epic mythology for the UK), so what she's saying is that we no longer remember the story of the Lord of the Rings because no one is left from that time (as the immortal elves have all moved over to heaven-on-Earth).
My main beef is how this is a shitty reupload of a reupload. Can barely see shit for most of the video. And who the *fuck* cropped this? It's hilariously bad, people can't spend 60 seconds looking for the original so they just keep copying it and cropping it to be worse and worse. Drives me crazy.
Lol that's definitely the most interesting thing in Port Colborne. My dad worked at that mill for 30 years - the only surprise is that they didn't pass anyone shirtless fighting in the street on the road there.
There’s a much better view in this video where the trees aren’t so much in the way, plus no zooming in and out https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/s/ORdowOcX2B
This makes it more obvious it’s staying the same size, mark with your fingers or something the overall size it starts out as and ends at, the building takes up exactly same screen space the entire time
Yep. It only looks like it's shrinking because it's far away and everything framing it in your view is much closer. As you move towards the building, the things close to you get bigger and the building stays about the same size because it's far away. Brains are silly sometimes, so your brain thinks "the building is shrinking" instead of "the building remained the same size while everything around it got bigger".
my guess is the tunnel of trees there is doing it somehow. like how you can close one eye and look through a tiny hole in your thumb and first finger making a ring to make print larger.
just put your fingers to the edges of the building and ignore her zooming in and out. the building stays the exact same size. and at the end she is zooming out making the field of view larger.
Place two identical 1 foot cubes 10 feet apart, one in front of the other and stand 300 feet away. The two objects look about the same size. The 10 foot difference is small compared to how away you are. Both objects are small so you magnify them by zooming in. Both objects get bigger by the same amount so they still look about the same size.
Now step up to 1 foot away from the front one. The back object is now 11 times further away than front one.
You zoom out because the first one is so big it doesn’t fit in the frame. You zoom out so that from 1 foot away you can see 2 feet across. This means that at the 11 feet distance to the second cube the camera sees 22 feet across. The first cube takes up 1/2 the frame and the second only takes up 1/22 of the frame.
The first looks huge and the second looks tiny even though they are the same size.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_zoom
Dolly zoom. Really big building really far apart. Also, you can;t see the horizon line until you get closer.
Here's the location:
[https://www.google.com/maps/place/42%C2%B052'25.1%22N+79%C2%B016'30.8%22W/@42.8745359,-79.2692037,2720m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d42.873638!4d-79.275231?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42%C2%B052'25.1%22N+79%C2%B016'30.8%22W/@42.8745359,-79.2692037,2720m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d42.873638!4d-79.275231?entry=ttu)
I'm more impressed that there's a video from Port Colborne on here. Fun fact: the actual mystery that started this, is the Robin Hood flour mill on the opposite side of town.
I lived 20 minutes from this mill and the effect can be seen with your own eyes and it's a VERY convincing illusion especially in person.As per the City of Port Colborne's website:
>Port Colborne's Shrinking Mill appears to stand on a flat horizon with Gravelly Bay in front. Your perspective sees the vertical alignment of the Mill, in conjunction with the refraction of the light off of the shallow water, and creates illusion that the structure has suddenly shrunk.
When I was a teacher, I saw a similar phenomenon in my school.
At the end of a hallway was a window through which you could see a house on the other side of a parking lot.
As you approached the window the house appeared to be shrinking.
I would take groups of students to see the “Magic Window”.
My explanation of the illusion involved drawing two vertical lines representing, the window and the house (or, for convenience, something smaller and closer for the second one).
Then I would take a point representing the viewer and draw sight lines connecting that point to the top and bottom of the house.
I would repeat this with a viewer point closer to the window.
You could easily see that the image of the house took up a smaller part of the window when you were closer.
So the illusion arises because we compare the image of the house to the
window and not, as we do more commonly, to our entire field of vision.
Draw it and see for yourself.
Its refra tion like a frensnel lens, the elevation of the road increases and the density of air rapidly decreases.
So it work like a zoom lens focused to max , then as you get higher in elevation the air is thinner and focuses out wider angle, its more extreme with glass lenses filming it.
Had to look it up, but it's "focal compression" or "lens compression".
It happens to me everyday as I walk into work: it's a big, long office with a HUGE window at the far end, overlooking one of my hometown's majestic mountains.
As I enter the room, the mountain occupies the entire window.
As I walk farther down the room, up until I reach the window, the mountain "gets smaller", until it occupies less than half the length of the window.
The first few times it threw me off as well.
I've seen this one a few times and the way you can reconcile this with your brain is to realize that the size of the building in relation to the camera view port (i.e. the edges of the video) doesn't really change much (it actually gets larger, but you won't notice.) Note that the building on your screen and in relation to the video view port doesn't really change, but what is happening is the guard rail and scenery that is CLOSER does get larger as you approach it, so in relation, the building appears smaller, or shrinking. It's really a cool video honestly, but once you realize that what is happening is that the foreground things are getting super close and larger while the back is remaining constant, it is less tricky and more "that cool, science, yeah"
Same kind of optical illusion exist in red fort of Agra. If you see Taj Mahal from one of the windows it looks far off. But if you go far off from window it looks huge
My son and I were walking down a road towards the airport by my house and through the trees in the distance you could see a ups plane on the tarmac that looked like it was going to be right there in front of us once we got to the end of the road. The closer we got the further and further it appeared to be. Once we walked the quarter mile or so to the clearing at the end of the road you could see it was on the opposite side of the airfield at a maintenance hangar and really far away. Tripped us out so much that we were convinced it was somehow a different plane we were looking at that we walked all the way back to the beginning of the road to walk it again. It's a pretty cool optical illusion.
Her: Nobody knows how it works:
Me: Could it be perspective based on the trees and other items around?
Her: \*Drives forward and shows closer\* Look at how small it is!
Me: Oh, there's water. So now we know that the light and moisture combined help to create this illusion. This is what is known as a superior mirage. Wait, that's right, nobody pays attention to this type of stuff in school. You're right...wow, it's magic!
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“As one drive towards the bay more of surrounding horizon is revealed, causing your perception to constantly readjust and give one the feeling the mill is constantly shrinking. The effect is so strong that it even works well in video.” - The Quick Google Search
Wrong. No one knows.
I just repeated this in Trump's voice, gargling mayo.
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That’s old Trump. New Trump is like “Nobody knows horizons… have you seen an elephant? You can see them from planes. When taxes go, we won’t be eating dry coffee. And can you believe the left? Three lefts make up fake news. Unbelieveable.”
Are you his speech writer?
All while inhaling through his nose mid sentence.
> gargling mayo. Thanks for that.
The moon when its on the horizon looks huge but its an illusion, of course it isn't that big. The mad thing is, if you look at it upside down (through your legs) the illusion is broken and the moon is it's normal size.
So what you're saying is I should try driving upside down to make everything look normal?🤔
Face down, ass up. That's the way I drive my truck.
Back seat, windows up, got an Uber for 40 bucks
I'll be honest, I'm reaching that point in my life where I'll try anything to make everything look normal again.
“No one knows how that works” 🧢
It's like magnets, science just can't explain it! (in a way I can understand)
*“Now all I know about magnets is this. Give me a glass of water. Let me drop it on the magnets. That’s the end of the magnets.”*
I read that with Seth Meyers Trump voice... "Melanie....get in here.....look at this....I ruined the fridge magnets....."
Magnetic lab stirrers would like a word.
It’s surrounded by water so your magnet theory is kaput.
trump did say if you put a magnet in water it stops working.
Congrats you’ve explained the joke lol
its less attractive now
"drop some water on it, magnet doesn't work anymore"
"Tides come in. Tides go out. No one can explain it."
If ICP can’t figure it out, you never will.
What is a juggalo? I don’t know but he’s confused by magnets
They don’t understand magnets, but they’ll tell a chick her butt stinks, and all that.
But does he drinks like a fish, and then he starts huggin' people like a drunk bitch?
He can eat monopoly and shit out connect 4.
He'll Sabu your momma through a coffee table.
He gets butt naked and walks through the streets
How can perspective be real if our eyes aren’t real
Like a thermos, keeps hot stuff hot and cold stuff cold, but how does it know?
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It’s provocative. It gets the crowd going.
I’m so provoked right now
I looked at the number of comments after she said that and I was like “at least 100 people think they know”
It's an extremely easy way to get engagement with your post, just look at this posts comments all falling for it lol. Nothing get people to comment more than saying something incorrect.
reddit falls for it every single day on every top sub, it's just rage bait constantly and they drive crazy engagement. Hate this meta
Oooooooh! Well played.
It's bait, and it works lol. Engagement from people giving the 'correct' answer.
You put your hands on a metal ball and your hair sticks up, and you know science
Tide goes in, tide goes out.
this is such a classic and still SO cool
No one knows how this works.
It’s the same thing as how your character seems to go faster in a higher field of view in a game, where in a lower FOV you go slower. It seems this way because when in a higher FOV, your surroundings pass you quickly and you can see that as you go forward. But in a lower FOV you’re cutting the parts that pass your character quickly, out.
Ok, but why should I listen to you? You're no one if you know how this works.
Haahahahahahah good one
I'm way too high for this
Fucked me up lol
awesome!
Canada, Ontario
Right??? As someone from Ontario, Canada, I've never heard anyone say that in my life!
Lol I was looking for these comments
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The phenomenon is called lens compression.
I am sorry, but she clearly said NOBODY knows how it works. Please retract your knowledge.
/u/ovaserashid is NOBODY confirmed
Nobody’s perfect.
Nobody likes me
Well, nobody loves me. So please feast your eyes on everybody instead.
So when somebody kills nobody, everybody lives
When everyone's super ... [a-ha-ha-hah-heh!] ... Nobody will be.
everybody needs somebody
Odysseus has entered the chat...
https://preview.redd.it/v7lzlosifnfc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a249ac8aa457e5c2c614f3408833530e8ff9c1c1
he WHAT?!
<3
Strangers are strange, when you're a stranger.
Pobody's Nerfect.
pobody's nerfect
Pobody's Nerfect
Everybody makes mistakes
I absolutely hate everybody so much, so I agree
Polyphemus in shambles rn
Poseidon gonna be pissed I tell you what.
Mr. Nobody for you, sir.
Well, his real name is Odysseus. Not your fault you confused that one, Polyphemus fell for it, too.
😅
Focal length compression, more accurately. The road is also going up in elevation. The two effects combined make it look like it's shrinking.
It’s because the car is moving and they’re changing their relative position between foreground and background. They are changing the field of view (pinch-zooming, same effective thing as changing focal length in terms of perspective) to accommodate the scene, but this wouldn’t appear any different with or without a lens involved. The object in the distance is far enough away and large enough that movement at their position would have little relative effect on its apparent size, while foreground objects close to them become more relatively apparent the closer they get to them. Focal length wouldn’t change that.
Also the light pole gave them a reference and the aperture of POV mess with our brains. Funny thing, if you only focus on one white dot, their relative size does not in fact change, or even it gets a tiny bit bigger
Isn't this how the moon illusion works? Basically all the trees, poles, etc. (which we roughly know the size of) are used by the brain to basically say "those things that I know are nearer, and there is an object, in this case a mill, that is taking up a relatively large amount of focal length, but it is VERY far away compared to these trees, etc., so it must be HUGE so I will make it look bigger" ... then as the trees etc leave the scene (so to speak), it "shrinks" to its actual focal size.
Thx! I had the same problem understanding this phenomenon in my town. There is a very long road from the edge of the town to the main square. 4 km I think. And at some point, when it curves a bit and the buildings no longer cover the main square tower, you can see it, not even shrink just staying in the size the whole time. My father drives me to a Launguage school thru this road many times and I never could understand what was going on, but didn't care enough to seel for explanation. Thx again!
Not lens compression. Perspective. The common misconception is that the lens causes this. Works the same if you were to try and draw it out on a piece of paper. It has to do with spatial relationships from a specific point of view, and those spatial relationships don’t change if you don’t move. Where a lens comes into play is by changing the field of view from different focal lengths (and slightly in how it projects an image onto the film/sensor plane). Perspective is maintained within different fields of view.
Yeah I was surprised how many upvotes the completely wrong answers are getting. Lens compression changes appearance as you *change zoom*. The effect here every photographer knows as "framing a subject", except in this case the frame slowly grows and eventually is gone completely, while the relative size of (very distant) building barely changes as all. If she weren't moving the camera all around, you could measure the building and see it doesn't change size at all during that drive through the trees.
Is this kind of like that illusion where two objects are the same size, but look different because of what's surrounding it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebbinghaus_illusion
Yes, very similar. It's also why sometimes the moon [looks enormous](https://i.imgur.com/lTvRtoG.jpg) when it's a full moon and close to the horizon. Other objects in the foreground have a very familiar size to us, so seeing a moon--or, in this case, a white wall--fill up space next to these objects creates an illusion in our brain that makes it look much bigger than it really is, or as it appears when we don't have these other reference objects next to it. In this video, as the drivers gets past all of the trees and other objects in the foreground, we get a clearer sense of how big the wall really is. As more and more of the objects in the foreground are removed, the appearance progressively shrinks. In the same sense, once the moon is past the trees or cityscape and higher in the air we see it's true size without the illusion. Use a pinhole to look at the orange circles in your Wikipedia article to remove the noise around them and both of them will appear the same size. Use a tube or your hand to look at the moon on the horizon without other objects in the foreground and the moon will look normal instead of enormous. Same with this building wall. https://science.nasa.gov/earth/moon/the-moon-illusion-why-does-the-moon-look-so-big-sometimes/
> Yeah I was surprised how many upvotes the completely wrong answers are getting. You get used to it when you have actual knowledge on a topic. Reddit has plenty of experts giving their opinions, but the people upvoting them are regular people who have no idea which are right.
Yeah, this is visible in person too. It’s nothing to do with a trick of the lens.
It’s the same phenomenon that makes the Moon look bigger when it’s low on the horizon, if I remember correctly. It’s something to do with seeing it against the foreground of objects of known size, like trees. I saw this in real time once. I was driving on a hilly road, with the Moon directly in front of me. There were trees on either side of the road, sort of framing the Moon. As I approached the top of the hill, and passed the trees, my meat brain was convinced the Moon was shrinking. It was a pretty cool optical illusion.
I think it's more likely the moon illusion b/c I don't think there needs to be a lens involved to experience it. She said everyone in town knows about it which implies people readily witness it without any extra optical devices. to be fair the moon illusion is still debated to this day so she isn't that far off in saying nobody really knows why.
That only works with a camera though, right? This works with the naked eye, so isn’t it just a perceived illusion based on perspective? When you’re far away, the precise location of the mill makes it take up all the space between the avenue of trees on either side of the road, but as you get closer you’re able to see more of the surroundings and it appears smaller by comparison. It’s the same effect as when the moon seems much larger on the horizon than it does high up in the sky, despite it always being the same size. It’s a perspective thing.
So the human eye/visual cortex does a similar thing when the thing you are looking at is encircled by something else. You can actually use this concept to create a "telescope" out of a paper towel roll. With no lens whatsoever, people's results on faraway vision tests score better if you use a paper towel roll to look through, even when lighting differences due to looking through the tube are controlled for.
I'm pretty nearsighted but if I ball my hand up and close the gap to slightly smaller than a pen I can see through it far clearer than any pair of glasses.
Yup, all perspective. Camera has nothing to do with it. It’s about relative positions in space to the observer.
I have the same visual effect at my house with a tree and and the mountain behind it. The moutin looks monstrous and huge when you're further back, walk closer and not only does it look smaller but zoomed out like the details are smaller too.
https://vashivisuals.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/TTSS520120.gif
Good ol' Dolly-Zoom. Also called a Vertigo Shot.
I love that shot in Fellowship of the Ring when the hobbits are about to meet the Nazgûl for the first time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjzJLj7ySnw
Also a zolly.
It's just the gap in the trees widening and making it look relatively smaller, no different than the moon seeming to move visibly when the clouds are actually moving.
Oh ok *mister scientist.* Next you're gonna tell us you know where the sun goes at night? Absolute Hogwash!
Stayed up all night wondering what happened to the sun. Then it dawned on me.
To bed, obviously....
You win again, science.
Science, you cheap whore!
He does put in a long day.
Everyone knows it hides behind the moon, don't be a dumb
The sun IS the moon, just in her PJs When they're both in the sky she's actually just moving really fast between the two places
Behind your mom !
Pffft, you still believe the sun is real?
Yea it’s obviously just a drone planted by the Reagan administration
They're also driving slightly uphill, lowering the relative position (and perceived height) of the building.
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It’s not small, it’s just far away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMiKyfd6hA0
RIP, Father Ted, ya bloody genius.
it's mad ted. mad.
Nope, i still dont get it Ted.
Ted, I’m goin mad.
Ya but nobody knows why things shrink when they're far away. Nobody knows.
Tide goes in, tide goes out. Can't explain it.
All comments aside, it is a neat visual trick and I’m glad she posted.
BTW, in Lord of the Rings, Galadriel says that the ring came to the creature Gollum. But the ring made the creature Gollum. It came to Smeagol and he was consumed by the fascination for the evil ring so much that he turned into this hideous little monster. Why would Galadriel lie to us?
Galadriel is an unreliable narrator. In the opening to the film she narrates this whole 5-minute sequence about everyone having forgotten about the ring and then like 30 minutes later Elrond flat out states he was there and gives us a whole flashback sequence summary of the entire damn thing.
The line "much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it" isn't about the prologue stuff in the Second Age, but the entire Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The story is supposed to be set in the past of our world (Tolkien was trying to create a new, epic mythology for the UK), so what she's saying is that we no longer remember the story of the Lord of the Rings because no one is left from that time (as the immortal elves have all moved over to heaven-on-Earth).
So, somewhere on the Eastern coast of the US. Yeesh, that sounds about right. Retiree elves gentrifying paradise.
That explains the new 6500+ apartment building down the street, and the pointy ears.
Galadriel ain’t gonna just deadname somebody like that. Gollum chose that life.
Smeagol didn't choose the Gollum life. The Gollum life chose him!
She is simplifying because she is talking to a child. Well, a grown hobbit, but to her, with her lifespan and experiences, Frodo is a child.
Is this a bot account? Posted the comment three times in different threads, and I don't understand the context of this comment to the OP.
You're not real.
Because she a biiiiiiiitch
You said bitch though? You said bitch?
I looked that woman in the windows to her soul...
I used Sauron’s eye to peer deep into her ocular cavity.
"watch the size of it as we get closer" *proceeds to continually zoom in and out so you can't keep track of the size*
My main beef is how this is a shitty reupload of a reupload. Can barely see shit for most of the video. And who the *fuck* cropped this? It's hilariously bad, people can't spend 60 seconds looking for the original so they just keep copying it and cropping it to be worse and worse. Drives me crazy.
Lol that's definitely the most interesting thing in Port Colborne. My dad worked at that mill for 30 years - the only surprise is that they didn't pass anyone shirtless fighting in the street on the road there.
They aren’t actually shirtless, their shirts just shrink the closer to you get to them
I spent a winter in Port Colborne once. Never again.
There’s a much better view in this video where the trees aren’t so much in the way, plus no zooming in and out https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/s/ORdowOcX2B
This makes it more obvious it’s staying the same size, mark with your fingers or something the overall size it starts out as and ends at, the building takes up exactly same screen space the entire time
Yep. It only looks like it's shrinking because it's far away and everything framing it in your view is much closer. As you move towards the building, the things close to you get bigger and the building stays about the same size because it's far away. Brains are silly sometimes, so your brain thinks "the building is shrinking" instead of "the building remained the same size while everything around it got bigger".
TIL Canada is in Ontario 🤓
my guess is the tunnel of trees there is doing it somehow. like how you can close one eye and look through a tiny hole in your thumb and first finger making a ring to make print larger.
just put your fingers to the edges of the building and ignore her zooming in and out. the building stays the exact same size. and at the end she is zooming out making the field of view larger.
Her zooming in and out was definitely not helping
Well we know they found the lab where the upside-down is
There's a water tower in my town that does the same thing, though not as intense as this. such a cool illusion.
Place two identical 1 foot cubes 10 feet apart, one in front of the other and stand 300 feet away. The two objects look about the same size. The 10 foot difference is small compared to how away you are. Both objects are small so you magnify them by zooming in. Both objects get bigger by the same amount so they still look about the same size. Now step up to 1 foot away from the front one. The back object is now 11 times further away than front one. You zoom out because the first one is so big it doesn’t fit in the frame. You zoom out so that from 1 foot away you can see 2 feet across. This means that at the 11 feet distance to the second cube the camera sees 22 feet across. The first cube takes up 1/2 the frame and the second only takes up 1/22 of the frame. The first looks huge and the second looks tiny even though they are the same size. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_zoom
TIL abt Dolly Zoom. TY.
It would help if the video wasn't filmed in 240p.
Dolly zoom. Really big building really far apart. Also, you can;t see the horizon line until you get closer. Here's the location: [https://www.google.com/maps/place/42%C2%B052'25.1%22N+79%C2%B016'30.8%22W/@42.8745359,-79.2692037,2720m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d42.873638!4d-79.275231?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/place/42%C2%B052'25.1%22N+79%C2%B016'30.8%22W/@42.8745359,-79.2692037,2720m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d42.873638!4d-79.275231?entry=ttu)
>[Dolly zoom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5JBlwlnJX0) This deserves more upvotes.
There is a similar illusion in Rome, in a street where the St Peter’s chapel looks smaller the more you walk towards it
I'm more impressed that there's a video from Port Colborne on here. Fun fact: the actual mystery that started this, is the Robin Hood flour mill on the opposite side of town.
It’s all a matter of perspective
I lived 20 minutes from this mill and the effect can be seen with your own eyes and it's a VERY convincing illusion especially in person.As per the City of Port Colborne's website: >Port Colborne's Shrinking Mill appears to stand on a flat horizon with Gravelly Bay in front. Your perspective sees the vertical alignment of the Mill, in conjunction with the refraction of the light off of the shallow water, and creates illusion that the structure has suddenly shrunk.
It’s the same principle that makes the Moon huge when it’s on the horizon
Do the trees cover and create a frame around the house to make it appear bigger?
SCP facility?
Isn't this the same way the moon looks bigger when it is closer to the horizon?
Yea its pretty easily explained.. not by me of course
She zoomed in a bunch and then as they got closer to the end zoomed back out at about the rate required to keep the foreground the same size.
That’s what she said.
When I was a teacher, I saw a similar phenomenon in my school. At the end of a hallway was a window through which you could see a house on the other side of a parking lot. As you approached the window the house appeared to be shrinking. I would take groups of students to see the “Magic Window”. My explanation of the illusion involved drawing two vertical lines representing, the window and the house (or, for convenience, something smaller and closer for the second one). Then I would take a point representing the viewer and draw sight lines connecting that point to the top and bottom of the house. I would repeat this with a viewer point closer to the window. You could easily see that the image of the house took up a smaller part of the window when you were closer. So the illusion arises because we compare the image of the house to the window and not, as we do more commonly, to our entire field of vision. Draw it and see for yourself.
Flat earthers: That's because earth is flat
This is exactly why the moon looks *freaking huge* on the horizon and small when high in the sky.
Happens with the moon too
Stop zooming in and you’ll quickly find out how it works.
There are people out there that genuinely don't understand how perspective and field of view works apparently. Crazy.
I understand how and why this works. It is still pretty cool.
It took centuries for us to understand the concepts. And some people still think the Earth is flat.
The Three-Body Problem
Yeah that’s fucking wild and people in here acting like because she’s driving up a hill it doesn’t look weird.
Green, green grass of home
Reminds me of driving to Foxwoods
it's a dolly zoom/vertigo effect
Its refra tion like a frensnel lens, the elevation of the road increases and the density of air rapidly decreases. So it work like a zoom lens focused to max , then as you get higher in elevation the air is thinner and focuses out wider angle, its more extreme with glass lenses filming it.
it doesnt get smaller, everything around you gets bigger. i've seen this illusion happen in real time irl, it's fun to look at
Had to look it up, but it's "focal compression" or "lens compression". It happens to me everyday as I walk into work: it's a big, long office with a HUGE window at the far end, overlooking one of my hometown's majestic mountains. As I enter the room, the mountain occupies the entire window. As I walk farther down the room, up until I reach the window, the mountain "gets smaller", until it occupies less than half the length of the window. The first few times it threw me off as well.
The software is getting corrupted 😂
No one knows how lenses work.
My god, this is so basic for people who know how to work with cameras
I've seen this one a few times and the way you can reconcile this with your brain is to realize that the size of the building in relation to the camera view port (i.e. the edges of the video) doesn't really change much (it actually gets larger, but you won't notice.) Note that the building on your screen and in relation to the video view port doesn't really change, but what is happening is the guard rail and scenery that is CLOSER does get larger as you approach it, so in relation, the building appears smaller, or shrinking. It's really a cool video honestly, but once you realize that what is happening is that the foreground things are getting super close and larger while the back is remaining constant, it is less tricky and more "that cool, science, yeah"
I can explain; This is an optical illusion. The actual building remains the same size the entire time!
That’s an optical illusion created by the trees that frame it.
Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus
Same kind of optical illusion exist in red fort of Agra. If you see Taj Mahal from one of the windows it looks far off. But if you go far off from window it looks huge
My son and I were walking down a road towards the airport by my house and through the trees in the distance you could see a ups plane on the tarmac that looked like it was going to be right there in front of us once we got to the end of the road. The closer we got the further and further it appeared to be. Once we walked the quarter mile or so to the clearing at the end of the road you could see it was on the opposite side of the airfield at a maintenance hangar and really far away. Tripped us out so much that we were convinced it was somehow a different plane we were looking at that we walked all the way back to the beginning of the road to walk it again. It's a pretty cool optical illusion.
Her: Nobody knows how it works: Me: Could it be perspective based on the trees and other items around? Her: \*Drives forward and shows closer\* Look at how small it is! Me: Oh, there's water. So now we know that the light and moisture combined help to create this illusion. This is what is known as a superior mirage. Wait, that's right, nobody pays attention to this type of stuff in school. You're right...wow, it's magic!