Massive 3D catzilla gets crowds purring in busy Shinjuku district of Tokyo A giant cat has been spotted peering down at onlookers in one of the busiest parts of Tokyo and doing what felines do best – taking catnaps. The giant feline – a colossal lifelike 3D animation – has been drawing crowds above the entrance to a railway station in the busy Shinjuku district as part of the Cross Shinjuku Vision …
I used to go to Japan on business often and had a rib fractured boarding an overcrowded train in Shinjuku station by a shover (I think that's a word) shoving everybody in the railway car so the doors could close. This only applies from about 8 am to 8:45 am BTW. Apparently this is the busiest train station in the world, with 3.5 million passengers a day (in non-pandemic times).
I remember an incident on the London Underground. The train stopped, the doors opened, and the carriage was obviously too full for anyone to get on. The next thing I knew, not only was I on the train, but so were the three Japanese gentlemen who had been waiting patiently behind me on the platform! They had not even paused in their conversation. No broken ribs either.
Komatsu make a (possibly) adequately sized mobile litter tray:
> Was the video taken at just the right spot to make it look 3D?
I guess it was indeed simply shot (rendered) the right way, fine-tuned to that specific screen's position and shape.
The human eye is easily fooled, our ancestral need to take split-second decisions ("attack", "run") has hardwired some very error-prone shortcuts in our brains. Pareidolia is one of the most obvious results, where from a few small and isolated clues our visual center concludes on a bigger image we didn't actually see. Helpful to spot a partially hidden predator, but also causes us to see shapes in the clouds or Jesus in toast.
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