Question about Ark's "Troubling Triangle" from the Dot Connector Magazine

[transdimensional]

Hi Serg,

no need for pain in your forehead. It's an optical illusion.
See here for explanation: _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_square_puzzle
They say seeing is believing, but what happens when the most obvious answer deceives you?

"Belief And Seeing Are Both Often Wrong." Robert McNamara (U.S. Secretary of Defense 1961-1968)

 

[Search]

solution :)

_http://zapodaj.net/08f42d7ef576.jpg.html

Hi lux, and thanks.
But I prefer to find solutions for such tasks by thinking. So I won't look at this link until I found how to solve it.(maybe after a long period of time I'll give up, because i cannot think about triangles and shapes all the time :))

The angles of the red and green triangles seems to be the same.
I give up for now, I need to sleep.

P.S. Why the hell Laura found Arc with his superluminal travels and mysterious triangles. (joking)
Now I'l be dreaming only of triangle and different shapes rearrangements.

Hi Serg,

no need for pain in your forehead. It's an optical illusion.
See here for explanation: _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_square_puzzle
They say seeing is believing, but what happens when the most obvious answer deceives you?

"Belief And Seeing Are Both Often Wrong." Robert McNamara (U.S. Secretary of Defense 1961-1968)

Hi transdimensional, thanks.
But I won't look at your link also :), I'll try to think more about tomorrow.
I'll make a paper triangles.

P.S. My Firefox, while i was on the way of posting what i wrote under the quotes of transdimensional, just can't load the forum page while everyting else can. :) maybe it was some sort of clue for me to think more about and not to read the new posts I'm posting from google chrome. :)
Good night(or day) for everyone

 

[Cosmos]

some clues :

what you think you see and what is actually there are two different things.
there are certain key words in the text that indicate the answer but the same words can misguide your thinking and therfore your perception.

two keywords : shape , maybe
there is also a sign that can misguide you: !

the answer lies within my last question of my first post here on this tread.

 

[Cosmos]

another clue : I was so taken in by the text and my wrong interpretation of it and the Triangles that I couldn't see the obvious.

 

[Cosmos]

another clue: because of my wishfull thinking I didn't cut out what is actually there.

 

[Cosmos]

another one: you can't trust your own thinking.
don't believe , research and look deeper.

 

[Search]

another clue : I was so taken in by the text and my wrong interpretation of it and the Triangles that I couldn't see the obvious.

The same. My thinking tells me that it is can not be so, because the free space cannot apear from nowhere.
But my wishful thinking overtook and I believed that it could be so and I didn't see the obvious.

another one: you can't trust your own thinking.
don't believe , research and look deeper.

lesson learned.

I hungry of more such puzzles :)

 

[Stoneboss]

Hi Serg,

What is the "obvious" that you saw? Is it based on the "solution" given by Wikipedia - _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_square_puzzle, or from the site that Lux provided - _http://zapodaj.net/08f42d7ef576.jpg.html ?

I think both of these "solutions" are totally different.

 

[Search]

Hi Serg,

What is the "obvious" that you saw? Is it based on the "solution" given by Wikipedia - _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_square_puzzle, or from the site that Lux provided - _http://zapodaj.net/08f42d7ef576.jpg.html ?

I think both of these "solutions" are totally different.

Hi Stoneboss, :)

I meant that it's obvious that it could be no extra space appearing from nowhere.

 

[Mountain Crown]

solution :)

_http://zapodaj.net/08f42d7ef576.jpg.html

Bravo.

The area of the first is accounted for in the second.

All this really shows is that the original cut out designs can’t be rearranged to make the same shape!

It’s a basic principle of stage magic to provide misleading assumptions then show the contradiction, which appears extraordinary.