October 21, 2007 by Vurdlak
Joseph Mohmed stumbled upon this awesome continuous animation. It works by the Droste Effect principals, and the illusion is almost identical to Escher’s window and Zoomquilt illusion. I was starring at this gif for almost five minutes, and couldn’t spot the photoshopped part. I know this was done by a computer, I just can’t seem to understand how. Can some of you see the manipulated part? Please comment.
If you like this kind of illusions, I believe you’ll have fun time checking Christopher Walken in space, Flying through city animation, Scary Spider illusions, as well as many others that can be found inside Animations category. Enjoy!
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WOW! Awsome illusion! And it dosent even look like it’s going back and forth! Who’s Joseph Mohmed? Is he arabic?
You can see in the first frame, the part of the coast pasted on the other (the sea is of a different color)
Just watch the little white bit in the center of the coast. You will see it suddenly change from a white bump to two white sticks. Those white sticks form the two peninsulas that are the most obvious repeating part of the picture. The upper right end of the mountain range changes at the same time. Other things like the road fade in so there is no obvious transition.
If you look right in the center and try not to focus on anything you will notice the land move right and left awkwardly.
I guess whole image is a fractal generated by computer - in world of fractals infinite zooming is nothing unusuall.
I have no idea!!! but its an awesome illusion!
If you look right in the center and try not to focus on anything in paticular you will see the land move right and left awkwardly.
My God
If you look closely you can see a section of the land from the middle almost all the way to the bottom shift to the right. I saw this in about 3 minutes. I had to spend some time on it though. Really great illusion!!!!!
Can someone please make a Garfield one? I’m need to make a site for a middle school project, and I choose Garfield, and a Garfield continuous animation would be perfect!
AND, following off from Todd, that’s also exactly when the second black spot on the land appears!
excellent!
its just so awesome :o one of the best illusions i’ve seen!
Yeah, you can tell it’s edited, but it’s still awesome!
It’s easy to see if you look at the right spot. If you observe the land between the long, thin peninsula near the top and the larger one to the south (I assume) then you can see the coastline move backwards every time you zoom in on that part. Thats the break point.
there are 5 pic rotating???
you can see one of the white lumps change at one point. its great illusion!
The whole picture is generating from the end of the black line where it meets the coast.If you look at this point you can see headlands and bays suddenly pop into view.I think the land seems to do the same but it’s not so easy to see.
Grrrate site, I keep spreading the site amounst my friends in the UK. Perhaps it would be interesting to know where in the world people are replying from to see if different countries view pictures in different ways
This is really cool.
Stunning and original, very well done! Kudos Vurdlak!
Good one Todd. I love this illision.
the thing loops perfectley over and over again since it loops so fast you cant spot the changes
woah! this is really cool! it looks better than the other ones where you can tell when the first second whatever frames keep coming and going.
i am not impressed at all (worst illusion ever)
the ocean switches from a lighter color to a darker color.
back&forth.
back&forth.
:D
If you watch the two wall thingies that scroll to the right, you’ll see, on the one on the right side, that a “house” on the right wall will basically dissapear.
It’s a fractal.
I have some other fractals and a few other illusions I made in Photoshop, but I have a Horrible ISP and am rarely able to upload or e-mail any files.
Also, kitty cat, I’m Lebanese and Italian.
Actually, I was very bored with this. I can’t believe some people will spend so much time creating things like this. Why not do something more productive, like spend time with your kids … just on suggestion.
*yawn*
i actually stared at this thing for 5 minutes!! AWESOME!!!!!!
btw-kitty kat, why do u care if someone is arabic or not?
OMG! joseph ur Lebanese! So am I! I live in beirut. Are u born in Lebanon?
Also shauzia, i just wanted 2 know coz i’m arabic too so that’s all. :D
My dad was born in Lebanon and my mom was born in Italy. I was born in Oklahoma :(
This is great! So clever!
Cool. I keep thinking the camera is going to crash into the ground. I think it is photoshoped so that you see two of the same thing (for exmple, the fork in the road) exept that one copy is smaller than the other. Do you get what I’m saying?
u can see that he photoshopped the coast to have rocks identicle to the coast itself
wow this is great i was like staring at it for like 5 minutes until i realized that it was going on and on and on
omg haha lol