- We've got illusion,
and we've got magic.
What's up everybody,
I am so excited to show you some of my favorite
3D printed illusions today.
For the last couple years
I've been really intrigued watching how people
are 3D printing a lot of items including props,
small utilities.
And a 3D printing company Lulzbot
sent me a bunch of printers earlier this year
so I started really getting involved
in the 3D printing process,
modeling some of my own items.
I stumbled upon some awesome 3D printed illusions
which I'm gonna show you today.
Starting with one of my favorites.
This is one of my favorites right here,
and you can see it is an impossible triangle
made possible by how you look at the angle.
When you line it up correctly it looks awesome.
Speaking of triangles,
this is called the penrose triangle
and you can see here if I even just move it slightly
it still looks like all these boxes are connected
in that impossible triangle orientation
but immediately when you break the illusion from the angle
its shattered.
Now this illusion I actually use as a coin holder
on my desk and if you look closely from our lower camera,
when you look dead on and the cylinder
it's actually two faces.
Which you probably seen illusions of this
where the vase is actually a face.
It's fun that it's an illusion that's also
a little bit of a practical value of keeping change,
on my desk.
There're a lot of items that I 3D print
that actually help me in my everyday life.
For example,
my office doorknob broke
and instead of going to the store
and spending 25 bucks on a new handle set,
I actually 3D printed a little bit of a goofy print
which is a cat.
And for some reason,
(meow)
I printed it upside down
and now I have an upside down cat as my door handle.
Another thing we've been 3D printing a lot
are these little GoPro mounts
so when we're doing Nerf battles,
which we do a lot of at the studio,
you get a pretty cool kill cam shot.
(cocks gun)
Should we get some cool kill cam shots?
Yes or no?
I say yes.
(uplifting music)
Ben.
Oh.
Right in the face.
This is kinda goofy but I actually use little stands
for some of my devices when I'm in the office.
So Ipad stand,
phone stand,
and I actually take these on airplanes a lot too
because it's hard to mount them
on the seat back in front of you.
Recently I crashed my RC plane.
(plane motor whirring)
Sorry.
I actually cracked the front plastic piece
so I 3D printed a brand spanking new one
in blazin blue color.
But then I crashed it again.
There's been three crashes in three days.
Don't tell Erin.
I needed some light switches
so I switched all of them to Lego base plate light switches.
Got a little key holder outside of office.
And a simple one that actually has saved my Boosted Board
from getting dinged up.
It's a little front plastic piece.
It's this front piece right here.
So it helps guard when you're hitting curbs
which actually happens a lot.
This next illusion I'm gonna show you involves a gumball
that can walk up the stairs.
And similar to all the other illusions I've shown you,
when you get the camera at the right spot
you can make it look like the gumball
or the marble went up the stairs.
Actually going down.
You may be familiar with 3D printing but if you're not,
It's a process where you take a spool of plastic
and put it through a very very hot nozzle that melts it
and a computer is telling it
how to build the model properly
and it layers the melted plastic
all the way from the bed and the base
of the printing machine to the end top of your model.
This is a fun illusion because it's several pieces
that go together,
there's even gears inside that allow this to spin.
Let me show you what it does.
It somehow defies everything your mind thinks is possible.
A straight line going though a curved,
little silhouette cut out.
These have to be some of my all-time favorite illusions.
They only work in the mirror.
Alright so here's how these mirror illusions work.
Lets do this one.
You've got square in real life
and then check out the mirror reflection.
You got a circle,
that is crazy.
What?
Got a circle,
(high pitched) what?
So when you put these circles in the mirror
you get a nice square and a hexagon.
Just to prove this is really a reflection.
You may know Belgium Ben
and he modeled and 3D printed some custom letters for me.
So here's this first one.
It says magic to illusion.
He also modeled my name.
Pretty sweet,
Zack - King.
Whoosh,
just like that.
I'm actually mailing out five of these to people
who can finish the treasure hunt
that I have linked in the description below.
Go to ZachKingMagic.com/TreasureHunt.
Pause the video and go do it now.
And if you or one of your friends has a 3D printer
and you wanna see where you can get these files,
I've got em all linked in the description.
They are models that people have uploaded to the internet
for others to enjoy and print themselves.
So I'm sharing the links all down below.
Thanks so much for watching guys,
You rock.