Yeah, the supposed Romney tax cut seems to be an MC Escher drawing of everything he thinks his electoral coalition might like to hear about a tax plan, no matter how contradictory.

It's a giant tax cut that will put more money into the hands of the rich Job Creators^TM.

But it won't blow up the deficit, because we're going to eliminate deductions to make up for every penny of lost revenue.

Which deductions? We won't say, but we promise what we do won't result in a shifting of the tax burden onto working and middle class households.

It is only physically possible to keep two of those promises at the same time. Romney would have to break at least one of them -- either his promise to stuff dollars into the pockets of billionaires, his promise not to raise taxes on working- and middle-class people, or his promise not to explode the deficit.

Personally I think the only promise he'd keep is to the rich. He'd raise taxes on the poor and blow up the deficit, just so he can maximize the amount of looting rich people get to do.

I was oversimplifying. I don't know enough about the theoretical physics of black holes to know in what ways they are infinite. However, the only way I can think of to extract energy from the black hole is if you could put a wormhole at the center that led back to its lip, tapping the energy from falling matter through the resulting Escher's Waterfall.

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I didn't see the Penrose staircase -- one of my favorite Escher adaptations.

Clever. Anyone who has read Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach will recognize this as a crab canon. Well done!

It's M.C. Escher design. What did you expect?

Did M.C. Escher design the road in that parking area?

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>> ^AdrianBlack:

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I don't remember which animation this is. No thumbnail either!

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>> ^blankfist:

Yeah, but I don't buy the pump idea.


Totally with you. The water is very obviously not being pumped from the back of the model back to above the wheel. You can clearly see the continuity of the water as it flows across the last bridge and around the last corner where it spills.

What's also obvious is, as I previously described, you can see the water pool up for a couple of seconds then get "blown" or sprayed (like putting your thumb over the end of a garden hose) across the last bridge. That's the only real mechanical trick to the model, and the last bridge appearing to be flat and straight is the primary optical illusion.

>> ^jmd:

I am also thinking its CG. At first I thought the wood structure was a faithful remake of the drawing, but the path of the water falling wasn't making much sense (Payback had an explanation, but failed to account for the spout and water falling needing to be in the foreground, and yet we clearly don't see an alternative source for the water fall) and the shadows... the contraption would need to be large and long in the back end, yet I couldn't spot any shadows for it. In that respect I give him props for doing a well textured and lighted cg prop, and convincing water effects, although as iaui noticed, he really messed with the physics to get it to work.


Yes, I did.

The pump and hoses bring the water from the far-away "top" to the directly-over-the-wheel "spout". The spout and the "top" would be about 6 ft away from each other, and at different heights, but because of the camera angle, look to be one piece.

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