Bottom, these stairs have a rounded lip to make them compliant with rise over run requirements in limited space.
Perspective
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finitebanjo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
WereCat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes
GladiusB@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Top. Stairs aren’t that tall.
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It is an ai generated image containing indicators of both perspectives to drive engagement
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I see no reason whatsoever to suspect this
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Look at how it is.
Joeffect@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Someone is holding onto it at the top of the stairs…
This is from the bottom with the mattress sagging into the step a bit due to gravity…
The railing is barely visible at an angle that points to it being from the bottom looking up…
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Might be one of these mattresses with a “break” in the middle so you they fold better.
SunshineJogger@feddit.org 10 months ago
Foam mattress? Broken mattress?
My mattress easily bends like that. Most modern ones do
fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Plot twist: Stuck in the middle.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bottom. Angle isn’t right to be the top.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
The real question isnt “where is it” but “what bastard wants it to be anywhere else?”.
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Top. assuming the light in the stairwell comes from the ceiling, the shadows under the mattress give the impression we are looking up at the mattress. The handrail is probably a light fixture.
Corigan@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Top the railing gives it away
gurnu@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And if you actually think for a moment you realize nobody carpets vertical parts of the steps
brisk@aussie.zone 10 months ago
They absolutely do, and you’re arguing for the opposite position of the person above you
IHawkMike@lemmy.world 10 months ago
While I’m not 100% certain it’s not just confusing perspective, it does appear that the slope rise is shorter than the run, suggesting that this is from the top of the stairs.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nice catch. The carpet wear corroborates this.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
pitaya@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Wolf314159@startrek.website 10 months ago
I just assumed that this was near where they joined a photo from the top of a set of stairs with a photo from the bottom of a set of stairs.
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah.
It’s below that grab bar thing and looks like old shit. I’m guessing a stud is there and the wall isn’t flat so it’s poking out and they joined the moulding there too. Or a shit repair like I’d do.
Also I say the mattress is at the top because lighting and the stair surfaces look like vertical riser height but that’s just grasping.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 months ago
but that’s just grasping.
Heh. Banister jokes, classic.
joshcodes@programming.dev 10 months ago
Thought something was weird here. The contrast and colour is making it difficult. If you turn up shadows it changes the entire feeling, including where the obvious light source is. I wouldn’t expect the dark side of the mattress unless there was a bright light directly above it.
Also the banister/handrail arm wouldn’t be horizontal. Most importantly, congrats, you got me invested.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No, the light could still be above the mattress on the ceiling at the bottom of the stairwell. This proves nothing.
But, the wear on the carpet indicates to me that those are the treads, so this is taken from the top of the stairs looking down. Also, not mentioned elsewhere, there is usually a nose on the treads and the carpet would follow the nose, which can’t be seen from above.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
The biggest factor IMO is something no one mentioned yet: we can only see one face of each step (either the top or the wall). If a photo is taken from the bottom, we would almost always be able to see the tops of the first few steps, which isn’t visible here. If a photo is taken from the top, the walls would pretty much never be visible (if they were, you could also see the photographer’s feet).
It is possible that this is an extremely long flight of stairs or that the photo was taken from a deliberately deceptive angle, but if that’s the case I have to say it was expertly done, because I am CERTAIN that we are looking from the top and the mattress is at the bottom.
ganksy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Exactly right. The steps sit on the risers. If you can’t see both it’s from the top.
supamanc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nah, the hanger for the banister is very common, it protudes from the wall and turns up into the bottom of the handrail, therfore we are looking from the bottom up. If we were at the top, the hanger would go into the top of the handrail, and you wouldn’t be able to run a hand down it uninterrupted.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
It’s going at an angle, not up. It’s 90° from the handrail itself.
BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
We could be looking at the stairs from underneath.
match@pawb.social 10 months ago
awh shit, i clipped through the geometry again
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wall haxx
winkly@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m a stairs half full kinda person
someguy3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Based on lack of shadow, I say bottom.
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Bottom, we can see dust and debris accumulated on the “run” part of the steps.
MisterD@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
And you don’t see the nosing of the steps.
cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 months ago
Trick question. It is actually stuck halfway along the entire staircase; the stairs go further on behind the mattress. 😤
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The metal bar on the top left indicates it’s at the top.
BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 10 months ago
Reading the threads on this post of people convinced the mattress is at the top of the stairs makes me understand why people can't recognize AI generated fake images and fall for propaganda so easily.
It's clearly at the bottom of a stairwell, but the amount of people convinced it's not really bothers me for some reason, enough to feel extremely apathetic of other people on the internet and assures me most people in real life lack sense to put trust in society eventually being healthy again, and I can't elaborate further why because I don't understand why.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
My guy, the banister.
J92@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But then if you find out it is at the top of the stairs, do you then question yourself as thoroughly?
Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz 10 months ago
The effects of how this bothers you places you in the group of people you’re bothered by.
moakley@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bottom.
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The risers on the stairs are not visible.
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The wear on the carpet goes right to the edge. That’s consistent with people stepping on it, not kicking it on the way up.
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If it’s at the top, the mattress doesn’t appear to have any of its weight resting on a step. It could be so wedged in that it’s being held in place, and that it was wedged that way by someone awkwardly pushing at the ends of it in a way that wouldn’t seem to give them enough leverage to do that. But the obvious explanation is more likely, that it’s at the bottom of the stairs.
xylol@leminal.space 10 months ago
If it was at the top those would be some big steps you’d have to lift your leg up over
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ccunning@lemmy.world 10 months ago
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Not convinced. It’s a different set of stairs and a different carpet. I have had stairs with a carpet more similar to the OP that did not have a riser. See elsewhere in these comments for a photo of these stairs, now bare. In the distant past, they were carpeted.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I think they’re cheap stairs without the bullnose. Makes it way easier to carpet. By the looks of the trim this is not a fancy apartment. The lack of bullnose contributes to the optical illusion.
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Who the hell puts carpet on their stairs? What year is this? 1973?
Vespair@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Carpet is softer and more enjoyable to walk on than hard floors. I will never understand this weird anti-carpet trend we’ve gotten into in the past decade, except that it’s the same thing as grass lawn emulating the wide expanse of the wealthy.
someguy3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Better grip where it counts.
moakley@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There’s nothing wrong with carpeted stairs.
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Well dear friend, let’s agree to disagree. I wish you a pleasant end of the day!
CountVon@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
People who are too cheap to refinish old stairs. Source: I bought a house that had carpet on the stairs, and when we pulled up the carpet we discovered a worn out eyesore that cost thousands to update. In our case the previous owners were a cash strapped family of two young kids with a third on the way, but the white paint and industrial grey carpet screams “landlord special” to me.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Interesting. My parents’ apartment had carpeted stairs when they bought it (when I was around 3). About a decade later they completely renovated the kitchen and naturally the renovations creeped into other parts of the home. One of the builders showed them that underneath the carpet were beautiful stone steps. They instantly decided to take out the carpet, and the stairs are bare to this day. Here’s a photo I took just now (obviously from the bottom looking up):
rotkehle@feddit.org 10 months ago
top. you can see part of the handrail on the top left of the picture
CountVon@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I think that’s a heavy duty banister bracket, like this one:
white heavy duty banister bracket
Some banister brackets have a swivel type arrangement so that the bracket can be vertical underneath the handrail, no matter the angle of the handrail. Basic heavy duty brackets like this one are completely fixed in orientation, so they’re installed with the vertical support at an angle to support the handrail. I suspect the bracket in the photo is at a 45ish degree angle and only looks vertical due to the perspective. The banister has been deliberately cropped out of the photo to make the perspective as confusing as possible.
Personally I think the photo was taken from the top of the stairs looking down, based on the wear in the carpet.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes.
lightsblinken@lemmy.world 10 months ago
technically correct etc ;)