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michiel | a month ago | 5 comments | 9 likes | 357 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:

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michiel, a month ago


Great Michiel....the stuff you read👍

Filip, a month ago

Great Michiel....

liuyongcai, a month 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, a month ago


pour un fois, les choses sont plus simples en français !

vincent, a month ago


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