Okay, so I was dicking around on ebaumsworld and I came across the following page:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/peoplecount.html
I’m not spoiling anything when I say that there are 12 people in the first part of the animation, and 13 in the second. However, I have been staring at this for about 40 minutes now and I cannot figure out where the extra person comes from. I even loaded up this picture into an image editor and recreated everything by hand, and somehow an extra person comes out of nowhere and I have no idea why.
If anyone can explain this to me, I will give birth to their child.
On the image with 13, look at the person on the far left (Amy), and the person sixth from the left (Sue).
Amy’s head has no part from the top, and Sue’s feet have no part from the bottom. In that manner, in the 13-frame, two separate people-halves are not connected. In the 12-frame, each person has a piece from the top *and* the bottom.
I think that is where you lose a dude. But it still weirds me out.
Much more complicated than that. It’s not halves, it’s tiny slivers that are removed and carefully placed, in a rough image, to “create” 13 smaller men out of the pieces of 12.
I had a hard time verbalizing the answer, so take a look here: http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/001258.html. It confirmed my impressions, and expressed them much better (with colors and numbers and whatnot).
Uh, well sure. That page just restates what I said. But it’s not just slivers. It’s whole portions of people. I used the phrase halves because people are cut into two parts. Some of them are slivers, but some of them are about half of a person.
Yes, that makes perfect sense: say halves when, for many of the new “people” it is 90+% of one, and