By Vurdlak on March 12, 2006, with 235 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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wonderfulllll!!!!!!!
Wow, this is just great!
these r pretty wicked does is say who did em??
iit iis quiite cool..
but it loks so photoshopped..
but it iss kwwwl =]
wow groovy
magico!!!
it would probably look a lot less impressive in real life since you can only see it in 2-d in the picture but you would be able to see depth in real life
This paint was applied on a FLAT(2D) surface to mimic 3D….your eye’s will still believe it’s 3D. BTW, you actually see the image in 3D in the picture(that’s the whole point of the illusion and in real life it would be even more impressive, due to depth perception), so thanks for your ignorance. And the T.V is mounted on a wall that can’t possibly be seen from the non-3D picture. This is real.
lol this is great!
this guy’s a master of perspective!!!!!!!
wow this is amazing lol!!!!! i hav seen something v. similar to this but the man who is the artists displays his art work all over the streets!
These are absolutely amazing! Makes me wonder what these designers do in their “spare” time!!!
While the theory is pretty cool, the pictures are FAKE. Can anyone else not see the pixelization of the shapes that are “painted” in the rooms and buildings? Look closely and you will be able to tell. If you were truely painting this, there would be no pixelation. Another note..if you look closely, you can see through the paint..another sign that they are computer generated, layered, photos.
Orrrr,its pixleated kuz when a photo goes on a screen,it becomes pixels,and who said paint cant be see-through
this is boring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you smell like poo
that is sick!☺☻
O__O” some of these looks photoshopped..
how did they do that, that is awesome
LOVE it!!!!
Thank u all 4 the comments there will be more posted up soon!!!
I must paint my home this way, this is awesome!
that is mad house
they’re using somekind of lighting projector and trace it back at the wall
this isnt that cool really!!!
these look stupid and not real only some of themlook real ..
Cool! I wish I had that in my house.
im rly sory bt is there any technique to this?i cant see anything..
awesome! totally awesome!!!!!!!
this is awsome
wow
but who has all that time?
well, if i say anything here, it’s unlikely to be anywhere near an original comment. But, anyway i will state my point: ‘It’s amazing!
So, who on earth cares if it’s photoshopped or whatever? Who cares if it’s some trick, or ‘it’s not possible’? It’s nice to look at, and that’s the point! They’re just cool pictures! Get over it, all of you!
i agree with M 2 the H O….. why does everything have to be photoshopped? cant you just accept the fact that they are real…..
dont hate…appreciate….yea its corniny but it fits :D
Along with Eschers stuff, these have got to be the best illusions!
some videos of Felice Varini work
http://varini.over-blog.net/
Did no one notice the room with the blue square with the X in it???? The one pic shows the lines painted on the cabinet (maybe it’s a bookshelf?) on the right side of the picture, but in the other picture, it’s not even touching the cabinet. It’s a fake, and you’ve fallen for it.
Can’t make it much easier to prove than that.
TO ANONYMOUS 97.
OH NO WE ALL FELL FOR IT, BOW TO YOU OH CEVER ONE.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE PICTURE’S PROPERLY, THEY ARE TAKEN AT DIFFERENT ANGLES. IN BOTH PIC’S THE CABINET IS PAINTED ON. IN THE 1st PIC YOU CAN ONLY SEE ABOUT A 3rd OF THE CABINET THATS WHY IT LOOKS LIKE IT HASN’T BEEN PAINTED ON WHICH MAKES UP THE VERTCAL LINE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SQUARE. IN THE 2nd PIC THAT LINE IS A SHADOW IN CASE YOU WERE CONFUSED.
Can’t make it much easier to prove than that.
Ummm………Okayyyy….they were all weird but still cool!
peh ak!!
basically, this makes my brain hurt.
so awesome!
the tenth and eleventh are SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)
That’s crazy!
Cool site, i will come back here, regards
cOOL how they work! YAY! 4TH COMENT! YAY!
these are amazing…..so often i find images on this site which remind me of how complex and limitless the human mind is. Thank you, Vurdlak, for bringing us such wonderful content day after day, you are helping to make the world a brighter place.
cool…
that is all possible.
the yellow circle is not real. there is a small television screen in that room and the screen itself had been painted. and it is PAINT, you can’t see right trough it. but the screen is a bit tinted…..
Got nothing better to do than whinge?? And bye the way, you’re wrong !!
kewl
cool
i like the 1st and 2nd
I came buckets
these are works by Felice Varini. he has a great webside with a lot more pictures of his paintings.
check it out!
yo do understand that none of these pictures are real…? they all are made on pc that is visible in all pictures.
especially pic 6 look at the small screen
in one word Fail!
for those saying these are fake, I thought so to, but as sylvain said, they are by an artist felice varini:
http://www.varini.org/01act/act0a.html
This is amazing!
My favorite one is with the concentric circles. Any way it’s looked at it has a flow to it, an elegance that is not found in some of the other ones. Any way it’s seen, it’s art. And then the full frontal view is killer. It’s almost mind-boggling, walking into that spiral of circles.
The oval in red and white was really cool too! Because it was in a winding corridor :)
fake or real i don’t really care but this is just cool!
very cool but confusing..disney channel did something like that with the jonas bros. they painted an all white room wit blu to make it look lik the disney channel symbol at an angel.
thank is very cool..the croos one kinda looks like a mirror but the best one is the bathroom circle. and this is defiently not fake u dum dums so if u dont like it get off this website cuz no one but haters like haters only if they dont hate on eachother but we aint hatin on u so why hate on vurdlak? u just hatin cuz he actually got somewhere in his life and ur hear hatin on a very cool cool guy so leave cuz haterz r unwelcomed! cool illusion!
@affy & Koen: What’s wrong with the 6th picture and the small television? Television is attached to other wall that can’t be seen in the picture below, that’s why you don’t see the tv either. This doesn’t prove the picture is fake!
Illusion is very very nice and stronge;)
If you have a look at them, they’re pretty much all fake. It’s supposed to be PAINT, not TINT, and you can see through all of them, except for the black one, and if you look at the distorted one of the black one you will see that the lines are alot thicker than the actual circle. I thought this was amazing, until I read a comment from Koen, where he/she points out that Picture 6 – The yellow circle – is fake, because look at the small screen – so fake. I hate to be a hater, but this is all fake.
My bad!! Apologies everyone, this IS real, because while you think you are looking at see through graphics and you can ‘see the wall’ behind it, it is the grooves and corners of the wall that they had to paint over. they obviously painted over the T.V. Koen, but just not the screen. Apologies again, and this is an amazing illusion.
most of these pictures are photoshop. If you look carefully some of the pictures the windows are also panted and im sorry but who does that? Also in some of the rooms you can find objects like lights, tvs, and other items other then the walls are panted partially as well. As someone sad before the t.v. in that one room is partially painted yellow which again who does that?
To all you haters out there, it has to be real. Vurdlak would have told us if it was photoshopped by now. And for affy and Koen, you have to look closely to realize that the screen IS NOT painted, but you think it is for gods know why. Anyway, the artist has a website with some more REAL work.
COOL and AWESOME :P
I imagine it would be pretty simple to make these, simply project the desired image (From a projector) into a corner/war/bend and paint over the lines you see.
wowow
i wanna be there thats the bomb diggity
yay 228th comment!!! Seriously, shut up and enjoy the pics.
cool! awesome! i like the 10th and 11th pics.. ^^ really great!
i really love your site.. ^^
The reason it looks like you can “see through” the paint is because of the lights changing the color of the paint and making it look transparent. Take for example the red, yellow and blue squares in the windows. The part of the beam on the blue square facing us is in shadow so the paint is darker and the bottom part of the beam is in the light so its lighter. Hence the illusion that the paint is transparent, same concept for the rest. Also to dude that said its fake because of the t.v. screen if you look closely you can plainly see that the television SCREEN is not painted, but the the box around it IS painted.
im a 7 year old with email phone,and not telling.i see aout every single illusion on dis cool illusiony site