Escheresque 3-D chess

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Escheresque 3-D chess !

Escher would be proud of this chessboard.

How the illusion is created:

Artist & photo credit: Elber Gershon


Another example on the same theme is a terrace in this link:
https://onemanadreaming.blogspot.com/2009/10/eschers-terrace.html

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Penrose Triangle

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Penrose Triangle
Also known as the Impossible Triangle

It is an optical illusion of an illogical triangle.
Can be drawn on paper.
But cannot exist as a proper solid object.

First created by Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934, and independently devised and popularized in the 1950s by psychiatrist Lionel Penrose and his son, prominent Nobel Prize-winning mathematician Sir Roger Penrose.

Roger Penrose described it as "impossibility in its purest form".

It was featured prominently in the works of Dutch artist M C Escher (1898-1972), whose earlier depictions of impossible objects partly inspired the Penrose Triangle.

Some of the Escheresque drawings / objects are in this link:
http://onemanadreaming.blogspot.com/search/label/Escher


1)  Penrose Triangle, an illusion only, not possible as a 3-D object.

2)  How to create an illusion of Penrose Triangle

Source: Wikipedia

3)  Penrose Triangle sulpture, East Perth, WA, Australia

Source: Wikipedia

4)  Penrose Triangle sculpture, Gotschuchen, Austria

Source: Wikipedia

5)  Penrose Triangle

6)  Penrose Triangle

Source: Wikipedia

7)  Penrose Triangle

8)  Penrose Triangle

9)  Penrose Triangle

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Alcohol is bad for women's legs

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Guy      : May I buy you a drink ?
Woman: Oh, no thanks, alcohol is bad for my legs.
Guy      : Do they swell ?
Woman: No, they spread.

Guy      : May I buy you a cocktail ?
Woman: Alcohol is bad for my legs.
Guy      : Do they swell ?
Woman: No. They spread.

Woman 1: I had to stop drinking alcohol because of my legs.
Woman 2: Why, do they swell ?
Woman 1: No, they spread.

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Ambihelical Hexnut

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This nut is called Ambihelical Hexnut.

What is the nut for ?

It is in the blueprint in the display stand
on the left half of above pic.

The blueprint itself is in this link:
http://onemanadreaming.blogspot.com/2014/05/can-you-make-this.html



Ambihelical Hexnut
   An illusion only
   Can be drawn on paper
   Not possible as a 3-D object

To create an illusion of the Ambihelical Hexnut:

Artist & photo credit: Elber Gershon

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Paul Ma's wine

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You must try my wine  :-)
If the name is Paul Ma, it must be execellent !!!  :-)


Paul Ma's  Cabernet Sauvignon - Merlot

Paul Ma's  Clos des Mures

Paul Ma's  Muscat

Paul Ma's  Sauvignon Blanc

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Camera has auto-zoom

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Man falling down cliff while photographing ...

OMG.
This camera is amazing.
It even has auto-zoom !!

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Foxs Wedge, Gardens of Stone NP, NSW, Australia

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Location:
Gardens of Stone National Park, NSW, Australia

Date:
2023-May-06


Foxs Wedge
is a wedge-shaped rock formation
jutting out from the main cliff.
An exciting rock to walk to its tip !!!

But hardly anyone knows about it;
let alone goes there !!!
Why ???

Trip report to Foxs Wedge and
more interesting photos are in this link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GjxcMcfYoT46MQTahV0kZRJe1O9fnKC1/view

Video by John Graham:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hIJcNvgHF0

Video by Lisa Li:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4RdP9gFBOY


1)  John Graham ...
     climbed down along the yellow arrows.

2)  Lingling Qiu ... walked along the yellow arrow.

Photo by John Graham

3)  Joan Aban

Photo by John Graham

4)  Lingling Qiu

Photo by John Graham

5)  Me !!!

Photo by Lora Ye ... Thank you !!!

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Mountain goats in Acoustic Chamber, Gardens of Stone NP, NSW

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Location:
Acoustic Chamber,
Gardens of Stone National Park, NSW, Australia

Dates:
2023-May-06  and  2020-Dec-13



Trip reports to Acoustic Chamber:

2023-May-06:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GjxcMcfYoT46MQTahV0kZRJe1O9fnKC1/view

2020-Dec-13:
https://mntviews.blogspot.com/2020/12/sunnyside-canyon-to-cleft-point-gardens.html



1)  Acoustic Chamber ...
     A group of us reached the white arrow  :-)

Photo by John Graham  2023-May-06

2)  Acoustic Chamber.

2023-May-06

3)  Acoustic Chamber.

Photo by Lingling Qiu  2023-May-06

4)  Acoustic Chamber ...
     See if you can go to the white arrow !!!

Photo by Anton Leddin  2023-May-06

5)  Anna (ZCC晨) Zhang
     made it to the white arrow of previous pic !!!

2020-Dec-13

6)  Anna (ZCC晨) Zhang made it !!!

2020-Dec-13

She reached there by traversing across
the back wall like a Mountain Goat !!!



7)  Mountain Goats are renowned
     for their ability to climb vertical cliffs.

8)  Another example of Mountain Goats
     on steep cliffs.

9)  Lee Huang demonstrating how to traverse
     across the back wall like a Mountain Goat !!!

2020-Dec-13

10)  Lee Huang.

2020-Dec-13

11)  Lee Huang & Stanley Wu.

2020-Dec-13

12)  Anna (ZCC晨) Zhang.

2020-Dec-13

13)  Anna (ZCC晨) Zhang.

2020-Dec-13

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What do pizza delivery guy and gynecologist have in common ?

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Q: What do a pizza delivery driver
     and a gynecologist have in common ?
A: They both get to smell it, but neither get to eat it  :-)

Q: What do gynecologist
     and pizza delivery guy have in common ?
A: They both can smell it but not eat it.

Old man 1: I was a pizza delivery man.
                   What a cruel job.
                   You can see them, smell them,
                   but you can't eat them.
Old man 2: Oh, I know how that feels.
                   I was a gynecologist.

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Two Moons

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Two moons 😀😀
When returning late to Sydney from a bushwalk

Location: Great Western Highway
                 Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia

Date: 2023-May-06  Saturday

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Generation gap hairstyle

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Generation gap hairstyle of Father and son !

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Sunset photo accused being fake by Jeff Dorset

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Date: 2023-April-19 ... evening

Location:
    Cliff edge of plateau on top of Gangerang Range
    Kanangra-Boyd National Park, NSW, Australia

Nice sunset picture taken by John Graham.

I uploaded the picture to Facebook
where it was clearly captioned that
the photographer was John Graham.

It attracted a mindless raging rant
by a racist guy whom I don't know,
and whose Facebook name is:
    Jeff Dorset (Eco Bushwalks Non Profit)

(Sometimes, he uses the name Geoff Dorset.)

And he claims to be a
"Walks leader at Eco Bush & Coast Walks Sydney".

Seems Jeff Dorset was jealous of others
being able to take nicer sunset photos than him.

Then accused me of faking the colour !!!

Below was the Facebook photo
and the mindless rant by Jeff Dorset  :-(

Jeff Dorset wrote:
PITY about the fake ovrer colouring

Jeff Dorset wrote:
Paul Ma, I take excellent bush walking photos---
I have been semi prof photographer
since the late 60's .
YOU CANT TAKE ANY CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM
--
TYPICAL CHINESE FACE SAVING SHIT.
Other photos are grest
but this one is ruined by too much colour .
bourgeois bull shit.
naive playing with your tek toys.

Paul Ma wrote:
Jeff Dorset, Photo wasn't even taken by me !!!
Hey John Graham,
here is a guy who is accusing you of
faking this photo !!!

[ No further comments by Jeff Dorset afterwards. ]


By the way, I know John Graham.
He never fakes a photo !!!


Post Script:
The photo was taken in a bushwalk
to Kanangra Creek via Murdering Gully.

Trip report and photos
(including this nice sunset photo)
are in this link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yTdWLMTSvG4rRV8Ih3zjVXwjwhO63DgL/view?usp=share_link

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