michiel | 6 months ago | 5 comments | 9 likes | 674 views
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I am currently reading Dan Brown's The Secret of Secrets:
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In chapter 39, a reference is made to the YES/NO sculpture of Markus Raetz. This object reads as YES or NO, depending on the way you look at it:
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Here's an attempt to make a Dutch version that says JA and NEE. The GLB model has been made with our experimental 3D model generator tool.
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The trick is similar to the cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter:
michiel, 6 months ago
Great Michiel....the stuff you read👍
Filip, 6 months ago
Thank you all!
It's interesting to notice that in French (OUI, NON), Spanish (SI, NO) and Italian (also SI, NO), YES ends in a vertical bar and NO starts with a vertical bar. So this makes it trivial to implement this trick in those languages!
michiel, 5 months ago
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