How is this possible??

Panjo1982

What ye all think of this i'm stumped!!

Freeshack

thats a dilly of a pickle

Debyaka

Freeshack wrote:

thats a dilly of a pickle

What the **** are you talking about???
You speaky de eeeeengalish!!!

Jim

Its Flanderish.

bounty

its got to do with the slight angle difference in the triangles

the red triangle is at 20.6°
the dark green triangle is at 21.8°

SirIrish

Ok here's d answer I think

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~armiller/triangles.htm

sionnach

the slope of the red triangle is 3/8, slope of the green one is 2/5. This means they don't form a straight edge together, the difference is so small though that you don't really notice it.

Therefore the shapes formed in the top picture and with a square cut out in the bottom are not triangles but quadrilaterals and the 1/2 width by height area rule doesn't apply.

[edit] gah, beaten to it [/edit]

DrIndy

Cool, I see the difference, now that I know what I'm looking for.......

petes

ffs this thread made me think. Whats going on?

beezkneez

you can see the difference in the angles easily by the difference in space the triangles take from the squares. not that crazy really.

Milkman Dan

it is kinda impressive though.

i like optical illusions.
like jordans boobs.

Hobbes

There is a huge thread on this over a year ago. Devore wrote it I think.

Tar.Aldarion

that was harder than my whole maths physics exam.....but at least i got this right