Why do magazines show things like this?

[Packard]

I am in Barnes & Noble having a cup of coffee and thumbing through a magazine that I would never buy, but like to look at while drinking coffee.

They go on about how she daringly use four different stones to make the counter.  They even show the bar stools.  But with no overhang, how do you sit at the bar?

Maybe it is a south-of-the-equator thing.  (Australian location).

The magazine article is here: https://www.domino.com/content/sydney-harbor-condo-tour/

 

[WastedP]

that looks like about ten inches of bar overhang

 

[rvieceli]

[member=74278]Packard[/member] there is an overhang in the green stone. It’s kind of an optical illusion that there isn’t.

Ron

 

[Packard]

If it is an illusion, it continues to fool me.  It appears to have no overhang at all in the foreground and about 6 or 8 inches at the far end. 

That would be 2 - 3 inches of overhang in the middle. 

I’m looking at the magazine page and I still don’t see the illusion.  I enlarged the computer image and I still don’t see the illusion. I am usually pretty good at seeing these types of things.

 

[rmwarren]

Here's the overhang. It blends in.

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RMW

 

[ChuckM]

I can see the overhang:

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[woodferret]

if i keep thinking "four stones" then i can see how this forces the mind into seeing a bricklayer format instead of the overhang because one counts four disparate colors.  Just ignore that for a sec and you'll see it.

 

[RussellS]

I'm going to go with the other guys.  There IS a 8-10 inch overhang for the elevated green stone.  So the bar stools can slide underneath them when in use.  They probably made the elevated overhang and the piece right below it to make it an optical illusion on purpose.  They want to fool your eyes.  Looks like the end where the gray speckled and white stone are has a 16-18" overhang.

 

[luvmytoolz]

Slight tangent, but does anyone else hate those types of really high chairs like i do?

 

[Vtshopdog]

Slight tangent, but does anyone else hate those types of really high chairs like i do?

I don’t necessarily hate that type of chair, but if I sit on one for any length of time my lower back sure does…..

On another tangent, anybody remember those “Magic Eye” puzzles where if you stared at the image long and cross eyed enough a new image emerged?  This thread made me think of those.

 

[Packard]

Now I see it.  I keep thinking that all the angles are at 90 degrees.  I see now that ht underside of the counter is on an angle.

 

[RussellS]

Slight tangent, but does anyone else hate those types of really high chairs like i do?

Yes.  Its so hard to climb up into them to sit down.  With a normal height chair, I just sit down.  But with those dang high chairs, I have to climb UP to sit down.  And then getting off them, you have to put your feet on the rungs and stand up and then step down.  But with a normal height chair, you just stand up.  Your feet are already on the floor.

 

[Cheese]

On another tangent, anybody remember those “Magic Eye” puzzles where if you stared at the image long and cross eyed enough a new image emerged?  This thread made me think of those.

Are you thinking about Escher?

Here's another that you need to just stare at and things will change.  [smile]

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[Steve1]

Here's the overhang. It blends in.

Bingo.   
I zoomed in for a while and could not find it, but you did. 

 

[Packard]

Slight tangent, but does anyone else hate those types of really high chairs like i do?

Yes.  Its so hard to climb up into them to sit down.  With a normal height chair, I just sit down.  But with those dang high chairs, I have to climb UP to sit down.  And then getting off them, you have to put your feet on the rungs and stand up and then step down.  But with a normal height chair, you just stand up.  Your feet are already on the floor.

I think it mostly has to do with the available overhang.  Bar stools require less, counter-height stools are in the middle, and chair-height stools require the most.  There are guidelines published for those dimensions.

 

[Packard]

On another tangent, anybody remember those “Magic Eye” puzzles where if you stared at the image long and cross eyed enough a new image emerged?  This thread made me think of those.

Are you thinking about Escher?

Here's another that you need to just stare at and things will change.  [smile]

[attachimg=1]

And I never see the “bat” with the Batman logo.  I see a large gaping mouth with just 2 teeth on top and 4 teeth on bottom.

 

[squall_line]

On another tangent, anybody remember those “Magic Eye” puzzles where if you stared at the image long and cross eyed enough a new image emerged?  This thread made me think of those.

Are you thinking about Escher?

Here's another that you need to just stare at and things will change.  [smile]

[attachimg=1]

I think he means a stereogram:

 

[Vtshopdog]

This is the one  was thinking of, but surely there are others:
https://www.magiceye.com/