Is it an Optical Illusion Tennis Match or is it just Australia? - Neatorama

I think this is how M.C. Escher played tennis! Imgur user cynicalnihilisticromantist submitted this photo of an optical illusion tennis match - or is it just a regular tennis match being played down under in Australia?

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Because the image is flipped (with the exception of the players), the vanishing points of the court boundaries are wrong; ending behind the viewer instead of the horizon. That makes it look just wrong.

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No, it's Photoshopped, but so many of those Escher-style illusions create ambiguity between foreground and background, which is especially easy to do when things don't appear smaller when they are more distant.

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Are you sure this isn't just photoshopped? The shadows don't look like they match. Or maybe I am just not getting it.

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Part of what makes all those kinds of illusions work is that they are drawn or photographed in such a way as to not have vanishing points.

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I spent a week in a little town in Idaho last year on vacation. They had a fiberglass Paul Bunyan in front of the school. According to Wikipedia, it was one of the Texaco "Big Friends" that was later modified.

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Albuquerque still has one. He has been painted over many times, and the property has changed just as many times.
The place he sits used to be a lumber company. He started out as a lumberjack, but then was destroyed by a fire. The owner replaced him with a chef body. Then remodeled as the lumberjack.
Back in (I think) April, he lost his arms and ax in a storm.

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more @ www.roadsideamerica.com

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Did he make Chicken Boy?
http://www.chickenboy.com/

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There's one in Tucson. He's a lumberjack but his axe is long gone. I've seen him holding a cardboard guitar advertising a local radio station, though.

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Back in the heyday of smaller amusement parks, our local park, Crystal Beach Amusement Park (in Crystal Beach, Ontario, Canada) had a Paul Bunyan that all kids, young and old, loved to come see.
http://imgur.com/vlkpCLS

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In 1966 I worked in a Phillips66 gas station in Brockton, MA and we had one that was dressed in our uniform and held two tires. It really helped sales. Serval Phillips stations had them.

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L.P. Anderson Tire Factory in Billings, MT. Has one holding a tire.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/25229906@N00/10103214633/

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