May 1, 2006 by Vurdlak with 69 Comments
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!
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2 words totaly awsome
there’s got to be like, a complicated mathematical equation involved for that. it’s awesome, though.
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.
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
yea they did this on a show called Treasure Hunters…its kewl
cool
I think Blackbeardius means two words.Still, TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!!
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.
I could kind of see the guys’ faces in the pic, but they were all stretchy Px
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!
wow all i can say is wow…
Creepy but cool
the 4th 1 IS an optical illusion
I once had a harry potter jigsaw similar to this. Wacky to put together, but as soon as you put in the cylinder it looks awesome.
pip pip padoodaly doo
BEST ONE SO FAR!!!! this is awsome, cant quite figure out what the 3rd image makes in the metal thingy
The third one looks like a portrait of Einstein (to me). I could be wrong.
great! do you know where i can get one of those cylinders?
You have to go to L’espace Dali (The Dali Museum)in Montmatre, Paris. There are some more cylindrical mirror optical allusions.