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May 1, 2006 by Vurdlak  

These people figured out some way of doing an incredibly distorted drawing so that when they stood a reflective cylinder (cylinder mirror) in the middle of it, the reflection showed the picture as intended. One of these is of Mission San Rafael, the exact view you’d see if I tilted my Nikon digital camera up - Escher portrait lyes inside this photo. Don’t forget that other photos are inside of this post. Just click on the title to go inside. This image below is Istvan Orovitz’s Anamorphic Art. It is called Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island. At first glance, the image looks like a shipwreck on a weird-looking island. When a cylinder is put on the print, the reflection looks like Jules Verne!

Cylinder Mirror Optical Illusion
Cylinder Mirror Optical Illusion
Cylinder Mirror Optical Illusion
Cylinder Mirror Optical Illusion
Cylinder Mirror Optical Illusion

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62 Responses
  1. aggie/longhorns fan

    2 words totaly awsome

  2. Feather

    there’s got to be like, a complicated mathematical equation involved for that. it’s awesome, though.

  3. mexico

    this are great images… i specially enjoyed the one of julius vern… you could do this by puting a cylinder over a normal picture and coping the image that you see in the cylinder… its something every artist should definitly try…by the way i have been browsing through this page thanks to ma illusion of the day widget in my mac and i absolutly loove the page…great job guys and greetings from mexico.

  4. Anonymous

    it’s called animorphic art, and it’s awesome
    One way to do it is draw a picture on a grid that’s marked A, B, C… on one side and 1, 2, 3… on the other. Then draw your picture. Then draw your picture ona curved paper with another grid, using the regular one to help you draw

  5. Anonymous

    yea they did this on a show called Treasure Hunters…its kewl

  6. Anonymous

    cool

  7. **~**AAAQueen**~**

    I think Blackbeardius means two words.Still, TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!!

  8. Anonymous

    the concept may not be new, but the pictures still amaze me. I’ve always been really impressed with Eschers’ work. A very talented man of his time and for time eternal.

  9. Jheese

    I could kind of see the guys’ faces in the pic, but they were all stretchy Px

  10. Andrea

    I must be missing something… I don’t find this illusion amazing at all. I too can draw a picture and stick a metal cup in the middle!

  11. kenny b

    wow all i can say is wow…

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