A practical optical illusion for children and adults. Here are the instructions to build it.
How does it work? If we move around when viewing a solid object, our brain knows how the object we are looking at should behave. However the dragon gives us the wrong clues, because we mis-interpret what its shape is. We assume that the nose of the dragon is pointing out towards us, but in fact the dragon’s head is concave.
Amaze your friends!
Matt Parker shows you how to cheat and make it look like you know how to solve the Rubik’s Cube. If you want to solve it properly, Matt’s video guide is over here.
They say that Rome wasn’t built in a day and I’ll bet this impressive masterpiece wasn’t either.
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I’m stunned by the scale, accuracy and mind blowing detail of this massive 200,000-piece Lego Roman Colosseum, made to minifig scale. Built for the University of Sydney, it shows both the Colosseum from two thousand years ago and its current state.
Made by certified Lego builder Ryan McNaught, it is, without a single doubt, the most impressive Lego architecture I’ve ever seen. It’s also ”the most technically challenging thing” ever built by McNaught, he says, which probably makes it one of the most challenging Lego models ever created:
I’ve really got a new appreciation for the Romans and how they made things. For me, the challenge of making something oval-shaped out of square bricks was mind-boggling.
