GunnedDownAtrocity
07-11-2003, 09:22 AM
http://www.optillusions.com/22.html
ok now my initial responce was it's just like you have a box of 5 books. they fit perfectly into the box one way, the box and books dont change but if you rearrange them you'll be left with extra space.
my buddy kept arguing with me and i couldnt see his point of view until someone else said if both trianges were a block of solid gold they'd take the top one as there was more actuall gold.
i still think its a simple matter of those particular pieces just happen to give the same length and height making the same triangle when rearranged. my buddy continues to argue if you imagine the entire triangle as a bucket and the pieces as water (forget that water changes shape as its not relevent to his example) you add a add all the units of water to the second triangle but it still ends up missing 1 unit of water.
ok now my initial responce was it's just like you have a box of 5 books. they fit perfectly into the box one way, the box and books dont change but if you rearrange them you'll be left with extra space.
my buddy kept arguing with me and i couldnt see his point of view until someone else said if both trianges were a block of solid gold they'd take the top one as there was more actuall gold.
i still think its a simple matter of those particular pieces just happen to give the same length and height making the same triangle when rearranged. my buddy continues to argue if you imagine the entire triangle as a bucket and the pieces as water (forget that water changes shape as its not relevent to his example) you add a add all the units of water to the second triangle but it still ends up missing 1 unit of water.