Re:Curse of the crystal skulls and other vanishing area puzzles
by mayoff on Thursday April 18, 2013 @02:51PM
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Look at the video after he's taken the pieces out of the frame and reassembled them on the table—say, at 1m20s (http://youtu.be/_LY7mf49l5k?t=1m20s or screen shot here: http://imgur.com/GgxONLV). He's kept the two reassembled halves separate.
Look at the diagonal edges of the halves. They don't match up! I've put them together in Photoshop to make it clear: http://imgur.com/gsP6AxG When you put the two halves together, you don't get full cells. You get a crazy mishmash, because the height of one of the halves has been increased by 3/7ths of a cell-height. He replaced some pieces when he flipped the frame over.
I'm having trouble finding Peter Tappan's "FuTILE Subtraction" from the citation