For Brissa from OPA, 2022

Here is what the three venturesome penguins saw when they came to the ege of their ever-shrinking glacier on the South Pole:

Never having seen a mushroom before, they walked around and looked from the right:

         

Truth be told, that didn't help them much at all. It seemed like it looked just the same, but from the other side.
Something had to be done to sort this out.
So, one of them decided to look from below.  That wasn't easy. It took all day to dig so things could be examined from below, but the view was equally disappointing:

Now, standing on top of one another (a position altogether too embarrassing to detail, so I won't show it - ....wrong!

Someone took the picture anyway, it seems someone always does.)

The penguin up top got a glimpse of the top, a plan view. Well .... almost perfect.

That settled things, really, now they had seen it all and could assemble a virtual picture in their minds.
This is what other people would call an isometric drawing:




With a little more imagination they managed to color it in, and "voila! There you have it,
 a hand-colored rendition in 3D, ha .... haaaa!"



Hmmm, looked like their minds had played a little trick on them and had placed the mushroom wrong side round.
Just lucky the imagination can compensate for such things and turn it round again at will:

This exercise made for two new words among all penguins:  "Isometric Mushroom."

So they took a selfie and

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