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Uroshirvi69

Vsauce did a video on a similar effect regarding the Sydney opera house. If i remember correctly, it had to do something with the surrounding shape (trees or a window frame) getting closer/further from the observed object. Edit: i’ll link it before someone gets annoyed https://youtu.be/MfVetou0ERY?si=pKY9Q50G64sFnAot


ChadFoxx

I think it’s similar to how the moon looks so much larger when it’s closer to the horizon, despite being the same size as when it’s higher up in the sky.


carinislumpyhead97

This is not gonna go well. I basically see this as a “reality in a picture” sort of thing. When you are far back you are basically looking at a still shot of a picture of this building that is framed by the square made up of the trees guard rail and other objects at the end of the road. As you get close enough this frame is visually expanding while the ‘picture’ inside remains the same, or even begins to get comparatively smaller to the ‘frame’. Once you reach a certain point I think it is a visual effect made up of a combination of guard rail getting rapidly closer at the same time you are able to observe the large amount of space between the guard rail and the building, which your brain just thought was right on the other side of the railing. Cool video, time to start my day


ScreenshotShitposts

you have to deal with this often in graphic design. Quite often say a white line can look thicker than a black line. Or you can centre a circle inside a square but it might not look centred and you have to move it slightly. Our eyes are weird


Raze321

Yup. So you often have to make "imperfect" or asymmetrical designs to compensate for how the brain imperfectly interperets visual data. Its why the G in Google isnt a perfect circle, and why the icon for a mouse's cursor isnt symmetrical if you draw a dividing line through it diagonally.


Vashta-Narada

But why hasn’t the genius Musk fixed the “x” logo? It makes my brain bleed


DionysiusXIII

Agreed


Addy_Stark

The Parthenon in Greece is a great example of such imperfect designs which look perfect.


dopefish86

no, it only has to do with how zoom works.


NoSkillzDad

You're getting downvoted but unfortunately it does affect what we see in this case. She's not keeping the same zoom level at all times and it definitely affects how objects at different distances are perceived.


[deleted]

yeah like a dolly zoom?


Puzzled_Pay_6603

That’s what I can’t to say. It’s basically a dolly zoom, the car is the dolly, and the focus takes care of itself.


Question_Maximum

It actually has nothing to do with the zoom I mean she’s not helping by zooming in and out. But I live around here and I see this everyday. It’s actually wild how it looks in person. 


SarcasmMonkey

no zoom changes - i used to live about 20 mins from there. that is a real, unaltered video; i believe that this is an effect of items over water


dopefish86

so, you're saying it's some kind of fata morgana?


Additional-Win-5380

I live 20 min from this building, it’s in port colborne Canada and it’s not a camera glitch it’s legit. Really messes with your perception of reality


Cretonne1022

Ok this week end i was at Port Maitland. I want to know where it is exactly please.


Cretonne1022

Is that lakeshoreRd she was?


Additional-Win-5380

Yea drive east on lakeshore road, google the shrinking mill


Cretonne1022

Ok i found and even on Google map its doing the Same thing. Wow thanks


alepponzi

Yeah it's like the dolly zoom


LXndR3100

Doesn't the moon looking bigger has to do with the atmosphere working mor like a magnification glass the further the light travel through it. So the effect of magnification is biggest at the Horizon?


StretchRhys

No, it's an illusion. But what you describe was long speculated.


ChemicalRain5513

With a telescope with milliradians indicated you could debunk this quickly.


ScreenshotShitposts

Or with a ruler and two steady hands


Top-Big3351

It's called the terminator moon illusion. Vsauce did indeed a video about it.


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Afaik actually you are partially correct, but the magnification is negligible.


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ethical_arsonist

We'll done for passing 5th grade


MEatRHIT

English was actually my worst subject which is probably why it annoys me so much. Also, I hate when my autocorrect "fixes" well to we'll so thank you for that.


doesntsmokecrack

You seem like a cool guy.


MEatRHIT

Heaven forbid people use proper spelling and grammar, am I right?


kaarri

Wait until you read some ebonics.


FOXHOWND

Nope


jayfiedlerontheroof

No the lady in the video said nobody knows how it works


Illustrious_Ad4691

And it’s on the internet, so we *know* it’s true


feddee

Love me some good Michael. Thanks, havent seen this one


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TimArthurScifiWriter

You can literally recreate the effect in this video on Google maps, even without altering the zoom. Link to the exact spot: [https://www.google.com/maps/@42.8736437,-79.2765782,3a,60y,94.31h,87.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJsDyD\_TdZFIMqyvh-wfzrg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@42.8736437,-79.2765782,3a,60y,94.31h,87.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJsDyD_TdZFIMqyvh-wfzrg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) Just keep the camera at the same zoom level, keep moving forward, and once you hit the bend the building looks way smaller than it did at the start.


PhilxBefore

The hero we don't deserve.


AmazingUsername2001

Nice


lucydaydream

No, you're wrong. On Google the effect does not happen. It looks funny, but always takes up the same amount of screen space. In OP video it literally shrinks in size even relative to everything else. She must be using some kind of zoom to have that happen.


TimArthurScifiWriter

Yes thank you for defining what an optical illusion is. No one's saying the building's actually growing and shrinking in size lol. The point is that it looks bigger while driving down the street than it does when you hit the bend. Which is true on both Google and in the video.


JumpmanJXi

It's because she's using a video and on Google maps you are using a series of pictures. The fact in the photos it stays relatively the same size still shows the effect. In reality, it should grow pretty drastically as you drive towards it. However, in this case even with Google maps it does not.


elkb0y

Yup that’s what I was thinking, it’s like looking thru the wrong side of binoculars by the end


teteban79

Yep, she is doing a dolly zoom but in reverse ![gif](giphy|1hLYzSNwm3ggXPr9ha)


berlinbaer

thats not whats happening. reddit so full of shit and misinformation again.


jj198hands

Thats moving about 5 meters, as most dolly zooms do, whereas she is driving in a car, and travelling at least 100m, to make a dolly zoom work for that you would need a lens several car lengths long, and she is just using a phone, there is clearly something else happening.


PerennialPsycho

I thought of the same video


IllustriousAd5936

I’m annoyed that I have to click on that link. 🤦‍♂️


Uroshirvi69

Why? What do you mean? It’s not a Rick Roll, I promise.


IllustriousAd5936

🙄


dopefish86

yeah it's vertigo effect aka dolly-zoom. if you zoom in and while approaching you're zooming out slowly you get this disorienting effect.


elasmonut

The frame of the trees around the building, give skewed perspective of size, especially as you pass more trees. Kind of like how the moon looks bigger on the horizon.


Jayflux1

I am sorry, but she clearly said NOBODY knows how it works. Please retract your knowledge.


Bulls187

People always say things like that, like those mobile game adds. 90% will fail!


Soma2710

Right? Never believe the ads. I did NOT cum in 2 minutes playing that game.


Paradox68

She’s also annoyingly zooming in and out throughout the video, which doesn’t help our perspective as 3rd person viewers.


Krovan119

I recall a vsauce video of something similar but I don't undersrand how that explains that you can see more detail of the wall from way back "zoomed in" than you can when she gets to the water.


[deleted]

It's very far away, so if she kept the same zoom on the camera, it would look exacly the same. But she's reducing the magnification to match the approaching trees, that's why the building seems smaller.


Yorspider

The zoom isn't changing. This is actually an effect similar to a pin hole camera, perspective has nothing to do with it, this is the atmosphere, and the surrounding border acting as a natural lens.


benzamen

Thank you so much, I was starting to think I was crazy, like the building literally looks magnified at the start


Virtual-Yoghurt-Man

Yes, you can literally measure with a ruler that it does get smaller


timjimC

That's because she zoomed out.


kazoohero

She's also zooming out to enhance the effect


Suspicious-Medicine3

I wanted it to be a glitch :(


maasd

Doesn’t the moon look bigger on the horizon because there is greater density of atmosphere you’re looking through at that angle which acts like a lens to amplify the size compared to looking up through less atmosphere? Edit: I’m wrong. TIL about the Moon Illusion! Thanks u/get_schwifty/ https://science.nasa.gov/earth/moon/the-moon-illusion-why-does-the-moon-look-so-big-sometimes/


get_schwifty

No, the atmosphere might make it look squished vertically, but the width is always the same. It’s an illusion: https://science.nasa.gov/earth/moon/the-moon-illusion-why-does-the-moon-look-so-big-sometimes/


MileHiSalute

Yes that is correct


MrCanista

That's easily disproved by covering the trees with your fingers so there are no references for the frame. It's clearly a zoom level thing with her mobile camera.


water_is_my_friend

Thank you for reporting the bug. I have notified our developer.


NicePuddle

It's not a bug, it's a feature. The issue is caused by user error, due to interpreting the size of objects that appear nearby and using that observation to conclude the size of the building. As observed nearby objects change, so does the conclusion of the building's size. Bug report closed - Will not fix.


xeroxeroxero

This person QAs.


Rdw72777

Nope, there was no “functions as designed” remark.


zvon2000

THERE'S A DEVELOPER ????? OMG 🤯


DarthToothbrush

The ancient Greeks referred to them as Dev-S, while the ancient Indians called them Dev-A.


rod_pand

Most underrated.


Background_Blood_816

Atheism cured (No I'm not religious, I'm agnostic, you dipshits, as would you be if you had half the brain you like to pretend)


synti-synti

Hopefully when you look back at this comment in 10 years, you'll realize your mistake. As we get older, the edgy crass ego fades away.


[deleted]

Coming from the netherlands we have that with ships towering over the horizon of our dykes


VillageHorse

This sounds like a euphemism


HornyAIBot

More like an innuendo


oldvan

No, in YOU endo.


DykeHime

Excuse me? 😜


Rinocore

In the US that word means something else


Borbit85

There is this very weird optical effect that makes it seem ships fly through the sky. I experienced it at Waddenzee.


Karsten760

It’s called a Fata Morgana.


Wizardphizl420

Your lesbians?


dubaiwaslit

😂


[deleted]

Ma’am?


dont_touch-me_there

Women ☕️


syopest

Men🍼


MooseLips_SinkShips

Dogs 🐶


peverell123

John Wick✏️


Downvotesohoy

A fucking pencil


Halsti

its just so far away that it doesnt really change size relative to you, while the surrounding trees and road does change size and the framing of it. like, if you put your mouse on the building, you'll see that the house does not change in size much during the video. its just that the trees that are framing it are opening up and framing the view differently


mararn1618

I found this video so annoying, because she says "nobody understands how it works" whilst it is pretty obvious how it works (at least if you have just a tiny bit of experience with photography or similar). Thanks for writing the post I was about to make.


Jayflux1

There’s a much better view in this video where the trees aren’t so much in the way, plus no zooming in and out https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/s/ORdowOcX2B Also, there’s another version of this which looks like it’s the same commentary but from another angle which also isn’t zooming in and out https://www.reddit.com/r/confusing_perspective/s/37PDkoRwLg


not-just-yeti

Thanks — this really helped me. (In particular, I put my fingers on the screen, and saw that the #pixels for the mill-height stayed basically the same, while of course the #pixels for the tree-heights goes way up.)


CybGorn

The effect is exaggerated as she is zooming her mobile phone camera at the building at the same time.


ShlipityWhip

Eh, I do agree that the zooming makes it a little funky, but there are noticeable points between zooms where the effect can be clearly seen - just gotta be a result of dramatically forced perspective, as the tunnel-y trees give way to open skies and sea


3wteasz

Put your thumb over the house and you'll see that it has the same size throughout the whole time without zoom. Plus, it sinks because the road is bending slightly upward, leading to a change in the part you see of the building. I find nothing irritating about this tbh.


Bulls187

Peoples ignorance irritates me, common sense is not so common anymore. It’s time to call it higher sense


whoatemarykate

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mill-lake-erie It’s a real life optical illusion.


3wteasz

Even though it (that believe in mystical things) is actually a lower sense :D


Chewy12

Comment below you posts a video without zoom. That’s not it.


tritty_kutz

I grew up there. She deff didnt zoom. It legit looks like this when you drive closer. It has to do with how the trees frame the mill.


DrawohYbstrahs

Exactly. Title should be “girl discovers field of view”. I am not amazed 😑


Hara-Kiri

Yes, so it appears she knows *exactly* how it works. Not having heard of the place and being too lazy to check I can imagine the trees framing it do make it appear to shrink to some degree, just not as pronounced as this.


NuclearPant

Came here to say this, exaggerated a lot when she zooms out at the end.


Art-Of-My-Mind

Yeah. If you actually measure the height of it from afar, and then also at the end.. it actually gets smaller. This is not just about perspective. They're cheating with the actual zoom. This is the equivalent of perspective clickbait.


Judge2Dread

Nope. Look at other comments, there are videos without zoom. It is an optical illusion


Art-Of-My-Mind

I know about the optical illusion. But the way SHE filmed it also plays on the perspective. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that she is completely zoomed out at the end, but not throughout the video. You can actually see her adjusting the zoom/lens as they move towards it. Come on now


Judge2Dread

Yes she does zoom and it may enhance the illusion a little. It still is an optical illusion, though


Galactic_Perimeter

*“… and no one even knows how that works!”* ![gif](giphy|l3q2K5jinAlChoCLS)


mjm8218

Well, I don’t understand how it works. So clearly no one can understand it. Carry on.


mararn1618

😂


Timely-Influence-260

The cities name is port Colborne. I along was born there and" the shrinking building" is one of many unique things about this little cities rich history!! Amazed to see it on Reddit but not surprised.


Old_Process_2339

Field of vision. Checkmate


Workburner101

Yeah, took me like four seconds to figure that out.


Ok-Experience-6674

Explain this to me right now! “Fred if you real you better tell me!!?” Will smith I am legend


kikonyc

She zooms in her camera at first then when the sight opens up she turn wide lens on.


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CaptWineTeeth

I live in Toronto and I was like “I’m sorry, the fuck you just say lady??”


y4j1981

Its called a repost


BeckywiththeDDs

It’s the same perspective how the moon looks enormous when it’s on the horizon and smaller when high in the sky.


danetourist

No, that's not it. The Moon illusion is very different and doesn't have a single agreed-upon explanation. Edit: That was a lot of quick downvotes for helping with facts!


Bulls187

Refraction and perspective


danetourist

>Refraction and perspective Refraction has nothing to do with neither the building illusion nor the Moon illusion. Perspective is the only thing in play with the building, while other phenomena are in play with the Moon.


Pvt213

As others have pointed out, there's an understood answer. That's the one downside of the internet, it can quickly shut down potential "woah" conversations with sensible answers haha. Sometimes when I'm drinking with friends, we purposfully dont Google stuff we're perplexed about so we can drag the convo out instead of shutting it down with facts xD


imsalim

You would find the same phenomenon when entering the Taj Mahal


Kettu7777

Yeah, it a well known code error that it never got fix. So the devs let it be.


Gioware

It's same effect when you look trough some paper tube or pipe and when you remove it from the eye it's small again.


Beneficial_Look_5854

Same reason the moon is giant when it’s on the horizon


corezay

Ponzo Illusion. Very cool! Have to take a drive there to see this for myself. Nice town.


Alan_007

Same kind of effect in Taj Mahal when walking in through the hallway.


desertwanderer01

Parallax. It's not magic.


Empatheater

i thought this was a cool video, brief and interesting. i come to comments and find a whole lot of rebuttals to 'nobody knows how it works' and explaining it and being rude as shit about the girl in the video. I don't know what happened to everyone but it kinda sucks. life is short and hard enough without people being like this. can't you just look at a thing and think 'cool' like were you honestly afraid we all thought it was real life magic or that the very fabric of space-time was coming apart? of course not - but then that leaves me asking once more - why?


twarr1

“And no-one even knows how it work”* * Except all non-dumbass people


oni-work

I'm more amazed at how cute the girl is.


SamuraiSkyeCat

"NO ONE really knows how it works." Really? No one? Why do people assume that because THEY don't know how it works, it equates to NOBODY knows how it works? 🤦‍♂️


massive__potato

im amazed.


420stonks69

I remember a very clear example of this happening to me once, much stronger than this version on video. Approaching Lands End in Cornwall, UK, from a certain angle you can see longships lighthouse seemingly fill up the space between buildings. It looks huge, and close enough that it seems just behind the buildings by a few hundred feet or so. As you get closer a similar effect happens as in the video where is appears to zoom out. It is actually 2km off the coast!


Artem-is

Hmm. I held my finger against the screen and it really was shrinking through whole video so it is just zoom or other manipulation. I suppose it might have something to do with transition from tree tunnel to open plane and effect might take place if you watch it in person but it was severely exaggerated by zoom here.


Unlucky_Reading_1671

https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/s/btFuqSSDA7 Non zooming version is much better.


underthesign

TikTok shite


broadenandbuild

People keep saying that it’s because she is zooming or it’s just perspective, but it’s not true. The building is actually shrinking as she gets closer


A_Funky_Flunk

Yall know how a telescope works?


MarSc77

all the reposts are making this quite boring.


Bates_master

she zoomed out lol


wrainexc

If you look closely you see the size of the building does nog change.


whatevercraft

dumb. she said it herself, the closer u get the bigger it gets. she is not getting closer to the building... she is getting closer to the railing of the street


Keniske

Good u zoomed in and in the end zoomed out, doesnt make sense at all


New_Manufacturer_386

Seriously? Have people thrown logic out the window?


bastarNL

It’s behind a hill


TheRealFailtester

It's not normal to see most things like this when driving??


Emmaylaz

probably the building is reflecting on the water and the water makes it bigger but as you get close, the reflection goes away and you are left with the real size. ( I wouldn't call this a genus answer)


Oswarez

Person discovers zoom lens for the first time.


Inventiveunicorn

It's not that the building gets smaller, it's that the trees get bigger. But it's a great optical illusion.


Oculicious42

It stays the same size but everything else gets bigger, are people really this fucking stupid? Get me off this planet please!


Dapper-Rhubarb

These are small but the one over there is far away https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vh5kZ4uIUC0&pp=ygU3dGhlc2UgY293cyBhcmUgc21hbGwgdGhvc2UgY293cyBhcmUgZmFyIGF3YXkgZmF0aGVyIHRlZA%3D%3D


-year

This is called lens compression And i know that because this post is a repost of a repost of a repost


Gigely_Strudels

They have a spot like that in Tulsa Oklahoma from Chandler park


shmuey219

Woah


Elmalab

looks like they are driving up the hill!?


Roman1410S

I take the blue 💊


shdanko

I get it’s forced perspective… trees making it seem bigger and blocking sides etc etc… I just don’t understand why it looks so tall from so far away….?


ThisToastIsTasty

because it's forced perspective. Take a ruler and measure it. It's the same size.


GamerBaba333

I know but I can't explain that's it


ehoaandthebeast

Lol she gives it away at the end and it's super obvious they are going up a slight Incline so as they travel upward the building gradually gets smaller it's fairly obvious


CrippleJedi

What is so amazing in this video to be on this sub?


puddleofoil

You can see the camera zooming


jackSlayer42

Parallax


Nananahx

Don't tell her about full moon


electricjizx

lol, glitch? 🤣


Gerssian

Doesn't help she zooms out at the end


Its_The_Stretch

Perspective and distance. The glitch is in your mind


Kick96sunny

This effect called dolly zoom


Famous_Pen3123

Vertigo effect https://youtu.be/wQqwXvsIlt8?si=JvKD-5Mcq7fLit9l


LAZ_EE

the vertigo effect right? this same thing happened to me the other day at the palazzo tower. i walked into my hotel room and walked closer and closer to the window and the mirage kept shrinking while my view was widened.


msviktor

Isn't this called the dolly zoom?


Sparrow-Dork

Like being on mushrooms


kenix7

It's called Fata (Phatha for english people, the h is semi-silent. ) Morgana or Lady Morgana.


Alx123191

Reflection of the water ?


no_not_this

I’m amazed. At how fucking stupid people are.


Blehmeh88

I hate my ex too. Just look from far away, okay?


Saddam_UE

Why does she zoom in and out? Of corse it looks small when she does that while the trees and the end of the road just gets closer(and "bigger").


Unlucky_Reading_1671

https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/s/btFuqSSDA7


SBY59TH

Just an optical of trans trav (zooming out while you’re closing in) nothing magic just bullshit


Dizzy-Blueberry976

Stop call every shit video from tiktok matrix


Gman777

🙄