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Optical Tricks of the Parthenon

submitted by winkler1

1 decade 6 years 10 months ago

Even before the Parthenon, the Greeks were building temples with few straight lines or right angles. Goal: produce something which looked visually perfect.

11 Comments

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Adding video to channels (History) - requested by jonny.

illusory sag is how women describe kronos' balls.

So literally, the Parthenons deoxyribonucleic acid lies in that stone temple, huh? Fascinating.

I literally hate the overuse/misuse of that word.

no upvote as it's one long teaser with no fact in it.

While they say it has all these optical illusions in it, this clip shows none of them.

*sigh*

Big tease.

Totally agree spoco, why does this have 62 votes?

It just shows some well known optical illusions and makes some generic speculation?

videosiftbannedme

The whole video is an illusion in getting people to upvote it.
I did just cause I love Nova/documentaries/history/etc. (and that I got tricked...)

I saw a commercial yesterday for those draft stopping floor rug thingies. The commercial said that without these "draft stoppers" 30% of your money literally flies right under the door.

therealblankman

All together now...

"They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is!"

(http://www.videosift.com/video/Stephen-Fry-takes-some-ribbing-on-QI)

schmasays...

a longer clip might have gotten an upvote

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