There's actually 2 men that you need to focus on. If you start with the picture of 12 men, concentrate on the lower far left man, call him man 1, and the second guy from the right in the top row, with the black tank top, we'll call him man 2. As they swap positions, you'll notice man 2 leaves behind a trace of his shoes and moves to the left but does not complete another body part, but rather becomes his own single entity. As man 1 moves to the right, only his hair moves which ends up on the head of another man. Notice that what remains of man 1 still looks somewhat complete but actually isn't. If the swap at this point was complete, man 2 should have combined with man 1, and you'd once again have 12 men. However, they remain separate, so you have 2 men instead of one, thus 13 total.
not that hard to sovle, but impressive
Posted byAnonymous Userat
2004-12-03 06:33 PM
All 12 people in th 12 person photo lose a sliver of himself to build a thirteenth person. Most obvious is the top of the hair (fair left) and the bottom of the shoes (second from right on the top). But if you look closely, you will see face pieces missing on the 13 picture. Mouth, nose, eyes, neck. Then people torsos and legs also shrink.
Very impressive on how they lines everyone up with such precision to get the slivers of folk.
sainttx
Thank You
Posted byAnonymous Userat
2006-08-10 10:39 PM
It's hard to explain but now that I have read what you wrote I can understand it.
That was driving me nuts and your comment REALLY helped. Thank you SO much.
There's actually 2 men that you need to focus on. If you start with the picture of 12 men, concentrate on the lower far left man, call him man 1, and the second guy from the right in the top row, with the black tank top, we'll call him man 2. As they swap positions, you'll notice man 2 leaves behind a trace of his shoes and moves to the left but does not complete another body part, but rather becomes his own single entity. As man 1 moves to the right, only his hair moves which ends up on the head of another man. Notice that what remains of man 1 still looks somewhat complete but actually isn't. If the swap at this point was complete, man 2 should have combined with man 1, and you'd once again have 12 men. However, they remain separate, so you have 2 men instead of one, thus 13 total.
All 12 people in th 12 person photo lose a sliver of himself to build a thirteenth person. Most obvious is the top of the hair (fair left) and the bottom of the shoes (second from right on the top). But if you look closely, you will see face pieces missing on the 13 picture. Mouth, nose, eyes, neck. Then people torsos and legs also shrink.
Very impressive on how they lines everyone up with such precision to get the slivers of folk.
sainttx
It's hard to explain but now that I have read what you wrote I can understand it. That was driving me nuts and your comment REALLY helped. Thank you SO much.