Ok, this deck is not a vortex in disguise, but it sure looks like one.  This trippy, mind-bending deck belongs to Jeff Dauber, an Apple senior executive of all people.  “I wanted someone to barf when they look at it,” says Dauber.

The Japanese maple in Jeff Dauber’s San Francisco backyard is not at the center of a carbon-sucking vortex. Sorry, sci-fi fans, but the Berkeley-based architect Thom Faulders’s perfectly flat deck only looks like its far corner has its own warped gravity. Ever since Francesco Borromini’s Gallery Spada, in Rome, forced perspectives and architectural patronage have gone hand in hand, but whereas the Renaissance architect employed a mathematician to make that arcade seem longer through foreshortening, Faulders used 3-D–modeling software to achieve Deformscape’s dipping effect.

[Via Gizmodo; Metropolis Mag]