By Vurdlak on March 12, 2006, with 231 Comments
This is fascinating. These rooms are painted so that, when looked at right, optical illusions will appear. Very cool indeed. MORE PICTURES INSIDE!
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it is sad that so many people do not believe that the art can be done, in my point of wiev i might actually be easier to actually make this than to do it the “computer-way”
but a nice concept, making me want to have colurs like that at home =)
AWESOME
wow this is soo awsome i wish i had this at my house lol
I JUST THREW UP!!!!
soooo want to do it to my room………..it’d be so kool…..lie, have a little peephole in y door, says look through here, and i have a big floaty thingy in the middle of my froom. you walk in, and its like, yo, wheres the floaty thing?
THOSE ARE SO FRIGGIN’ COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i wan’t a room like that… but it looks like it would take forever to figure out how and where to paint the lines and stuff. but it looks awsome.
These are made by a french artist : http://www.artnet.com/artist/14615/georges-rousse.html
It’as as some said, shapes projected on walls and you just have to paint.
PS : I hate people that thinks everything is photo shopped
This is easy if you study graphic disign and Technique Drawing trust me!!!!!
this is amzing!:o
website of the artist, felice varni: http://www.varini.org/
Actually, the bottom one, (the zigzag red line) IS in new york
This is so siiiiiiccckkkk!!!!
Wicked.
Kwl
CHI CHIS
cool
This is amazing.
Absolutly Amazing.
hey people its me again this is like my fav site ever, cuz illusions are THE FRICKING BEST!!!
un real as my mum would say it looks realy 3D but with out the glasses its totaly phco it reminds me of myself
oh and dose anyone play internet halo? no better Q dose anyone play internet halo and killed me or i killed them?
Can you say Photoshop???
hi i sayed did any one kill me or i killed them if i did im not sorry lol :-) lol is gay
This is pretty cool…. so are the rooms painted so they have that look or what? I’m confused…
what sort of people leave messages on his weird site? i mean, anyone who is writing messages on here in this leave a reply box must be really crazy.
in halo im flood hater
stryder
grunt kill
splatty
PLEASE READ THIS MESSIGE
wow
the window one looks like it was just painted on the windows…
Too cool for words, must attempt…
cool
nice
I find this really amazing, i wish i could see it in real life!!!!!!!
does any1 know a place where i could see them?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I NEVER wanna go in those rooms..i got dizzy just looking at it
8-()
wowzorz….
~ ;-(3)
this is wayy 2 kool!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dude, that’s pretty tight! I wish my house looked like that!
dude, i wanna paint my college dorm like this. it would be waaay cool, and my landlord would sue me!! yaay!!!
the moniter on da yellow target duznt dissapear – when the camera changes angle, it falls out of view – u can tell by the amount of wall that is seen in each picture
I liked the sidewalk chalk better.
this was a bit boring….but i guess some of it wuz kinda kool!
Whoa! where are these pics being taken??
?
lily said
this is so cool i … i wonder how they do it
WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW….that rocks….
OMG!! that is awesome!! i wish i could do that!!
XD
Very nice illusions, similar to the juxtaposition exercise, they are great optical illusions and lots of fun to do.
‘Lid…..never follow
Some of those are photoshopped. You can completely tell by the way the paint pops out.
i really dont get these.. someone plz explain
Now wait a minute, in real life if you walked into a room with one of those funky things painted on it, wouldn’t you notice the depth change? Like you’d be able to tell the difference because of depth wouldn’t you?
this is fake, look at the tv on the yellow bulseye
Never thought about doing something like that…awesome!
that would be so cool to have a house like that!
I saw a documentary about the the guy who made these a while ago, don’t remember the name though. The coolest one was when he painted an entire village with lines. When you watched the village from a hill a mile away it all made sense. So cool…
i’m like “hi” i don’t get it! will some1 explain it to me as well please
…we’re bored in psych class, so we decided to google optical illusions. To our pleasant surprise, this site crossed our path. We have never been more mind boggled or perplexed. We plan to travel the world and visit these 3 dimensional optical illusions. Thanks for your inspiration for my life journey.
Okay… I have a headache!
Not to say this isn’t cool (it’s ausome!) butt on the seacond to last one… why can’t they just paint the windows?
i am almost positive that they used a very nice laser level. used mostly in construction for lighting layouts and ceiling grids. i hope this answers some questions as to how they got the lines projected on the walls, and how the lines made it around the corners. this is only my opinion, but i do know that lasers bend. Anyway, this is amazing and i plan on doing this in my new york home. i can’t wait!
this is totally cool!
well kool y cnt my room b lyk dat???
Love them! thats why i got the widget u guyses made!
lol
YOUR OPTICAL ILLUSIONS ARE:
¶;-0 – Amazing
¶:-( – Weird
¶:-P – Funny
i couldnt c anythin
these are all for real and so clever. I work in a building in Basel, Switzerland, where there is one of these ‘pieces’ of Felice Varini’s art http://www.varini.org/02indc/17indce94.html
Great job. They are all cool
VERY GOOD IDEA!!!!!
THE THIN BLACK CIRCLES DOES IT FOR ME. WELL DONE!!
VERY TALENTED INDIVIDUALS. I AM ENVIOUS. I’VE SEEN SIMILAR WORKS BEFORE AND IT JUST BLOWS ME AWAY.
this is unrealistic but some ONLY SOME are cool
Who has this much time?
WOW i should get somthing like this done to my house
great job!!
:)
As for the TARGET.
The monitor is mounted on another wall,not seen in the second photo.
Just like the three pillars are not
seen in the first. It’s all relative.
i luv illusions!! i have a new illusion for everyday on my dashboard!! its awesome, but i can’t figure it out so i look on this website
To those of you that claim photoshop, you should know: 1. the zigzag (bottom photo is in new york) 2. I have personally seen a HUGE installment of orange triangles in Switzerland- it’s awesome and one buildings (you must see in to believe it, really) 3. His name is Felice Varini, and has a website, DVD and book. Look it up, you “know it alls” since you are WRONG WRONG WRONG.. and .. there are artists that have been doing this for a long time… you can find info if you try.
WOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!!!!!11
I just finished my own, and it looks verry cool!
Only not al surfaces where the same color so i’ve to ajust the lightning to see it proper.
Big Up!
These are not real, they are superimposed by computer
ed, u need to get a sense of humor
the one with the circles looks just as good also taken by the “wrong” angle…
i loved the one with the windows..
the time is must take to line up everything is spectacular. I would love to see it in real life. A lot of this stuff doesn’t look real.
cool!!
but slightly nausiating….
yeah seen this b4
Bravo Mr Varini (et al.) for your minimalistic inversion of the classical trompe l’oeil concept in painting. The goal there was to create the illusion of a third dimension where there was none (or, in architecture, to increase the perception of deepness in perspective).
I must admit I’m more impressed by the classical version.
Some might like to have a look at http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe-l'%C5%93il
At first, I thought they took a pic of a room then did crap on the computer, but then I saw how they painted it or whatev. Its pretty darn awesome.