jack | (no subject)

Outside cineworld, there is a giant 3d snowman made from lights, as if giant christmas lights were molded into that shape. It looks amazingly 3d. But it's not clear why, since it really *is* 3d, as is everything else in the area.

I can only guess that the tessellation of lights shows the contours of the surface in a way very typical of computer-rendered or other 2d perspective drawings, and is instinctively compared to those, but totally wins because it's genuinely completely accurate.