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That 12 story tank looks amazing.
by liquidify 6y ago
That 12 story tank looks amazing.
- aspenmayer 6y agoAm I the only one who finds megastructures like this surreal? It’s not agoraphobia per se, but sometimes when I behold things like this tank or especially when I gaze upwards at a skyscraper, I get this sense that of not-rightness that it exists and that I’m so close to it to be looking at it from this angle. Vertigo maybe? It happens even in pictures so I’m sure it’s something about my mind thinking something is amiss somehow but I don’t know why. I actually am quite fascinated with megastructures like these but have a hard time appreciating them sometimes while grappling with the extrasensory overload that viewing them can induce.
- ben_w 6y agoI had something like that in NCY a few years ago. The upper parts of the new world trade centre building were always so far away they lacked parallax, so it was like looking at a skybox in a sprite-based FPS. I don’t get the effect with pictures of big things, but in addition to not finding the lack of parallax confusing in that situation, I also know that is part of my mind getting the scale wrong.