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From the Ted Talk by Erik Johansson: Impossible photography

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So I think the basics are quite simple. I just see it as a puzzle of reality where you can take different pceies of reality and put it together to create alternate riletay. And let me show you a simple example. Here we have three perfectly imaginable physical objects, something we all can relate to lvniig in a three-dimensional world. But combined in a certain way, they can cteare something that still looks three-dimensional, like it could exist. But at the same time, we know it can't. So we trick our brains, because our brain simply doesn't accept the fact that it doesn't really make sense. And I see the same process with combining photographs. It's just really about combining different rlteaieis.

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But what's the _____ that makes it look _________? Is it something about the details or the ______? Is it something about the light? What creates the illusion? Sometimes the perspective is the illusion. But in the end, it comes down to how we interpret the world and how it can be realized on a two-dimensional surface. It's not really what is realistic, it's what we think looks realistic really.

So I think the basics are quite simple. I just see it as a puzzle of reality where you can take different ______ of reality and put it together to create alternate _______. And let me show you a simple example. Here we have three perfectly imaginable physical objects, something we all can relate to ______ in a three-dimensional world. But combined in a certain way, they can ______ something that still looks three-dimensional, like it could exist. But at the same time, we know it can't. So we trick our brains, because our brain simply doesn't accept the fact that it doesn't really make sense. And I see the same process with combining photographs. It's just really about combining different _________.

Solution


  1. realistic
  2. realities
  3. reality
  4. create
  5. living
  6. colors
  7. pieces
  8. trick

Original Text


But what's the trick that makes it look realistic? Is it something about the details or the colors? Is it something about the light? What creates the illusion? Sometimes the perspective is the illusion. But in the end, it comes down to how we interpret the world and how it can be realized on a two-dimensional surface. It's not really what is realistic, it's what we think looks realistic really.

So I think the basics are quite simple. I just see it as a puzzle of reality where you can take different pieces of reality and put it together to create alternate reality. And let me show you a simple example. Here we have three perfectly imaginable physical objects, something we all can relate to living in a three-dimensional world. But combined in a certain way, they can create something that still looks three-dimensional, like it could exist. But at the same time, we know it can't. So we trick our brains, because our brain simply doesn't accept the fact that it doesn't really make sense. And I see the same process with combining photographs. It's just really about combining different realities.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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