Comments on: Megafon’s Folded Chessboard

By: Mysterieo The Illusionist

Mysterieo The Illusionist — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:25:23 +0000

look at http://www.moillusions.com/2009/06/still-no-luck-finding-jobs.html

By: Vicki

Vicki — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:50:42 +0000

sorry, after reading some of the other comments I’d like to add that I read this from my.yahoo rss, and I don’t even get the text on my yahoo page unless I roll-over/click the link. Those who don’t want to read can just ignore, right.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:44:37 +0000

Hello,

I like the first picture simply because it baffles me to think that is an ad for something?

But, what I really want to write here is that, by all means, continue the explanations and history. Sometimes, (i’m a little slow I guess) but I really don’t get the pictures until there explained. Also, I recently went to an exhibit in Tokyo entitled visual deception and discovered there is a long and interesting history to this kind of thing. So often we do see it in advertisement and thus public opinion of this art form is somewhat cheapened. I for one find it fascinating. thanks.

By: Cathy Gould

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:21:29 +0000

PLEASE continue your comments! from today’s post and, links from it, alone, I’ve discovered:
a worldwide compendium of impossible objects and their artists, (http://im-possible.info), the very odd mind of Harry Rowohlt, Photography artist Chema Madoz, (http://www.chemamadoz.com)
artist and poet Joan Brossa,(http://www.joanbrossa.org),
and from a link from a page about Joan Brossa-(soap bubbles being a lifelong passion of mine) SoapBubbler.com, with articles and links to videos on soap bubble artists around the world.

Your notes about your life remind me that this site is not the product of a faceless mega-corp, but of one very brilliant human. Also, how much work is involved in producing this site- not just finding the illusions, but the computer knowledge and time spent finding sponsors so we may enjoy all this free.

oh-as for the illusions today, del Prete for me- it’s the original, and was created before Photoshop!

By: Jenni

Jenni — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:50:21 +0000

I like the longer explanations, as they make it far clearer and more interesting

By: Jon Ochsendorf

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:55:17 +0000

M.C. Escher anyone?

By: Howard Cheetham

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:05:55 +0000

The Terrace wins for me – the dichotomy takes longer to develop as you scan up or down (maybe a result of more squares), but naturally slips back to a terrace view. The ad comes at you as looking up at an overhang, the quickly cahnges to the office (but too noisy) and is then difficult to recreate the original impression. The folding chess board has a nice balance, but is limited by the choice od 8×8 squares.

By: J.J

J.J — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:13:32 +0000

I prefer the folding chessboard illusion best, as it has more detail than the terrace, and the advert is not so striking.

I agree with the other comments, I think that the explanations give the illusions meaning, and they would otherwise just be a collection of pictures.

By: RODRIGO

RODRIGO — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:07:34 +0000

Hi, I like the texts.
From this post my favorite is the terrace, I find it more balanced than Delprete’s, Megafon’s instead is lacking the ladder, to me an essencial of this illusion. Keep on, and thank you.

By: crazyyboyy

crazyyboyy — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:45:40 +0000

I quite like the in-depth articles personally as also I like the articles with snippets of your life in and I think that your doing an amazing job to post an illusion pretty much every day and writing any text to you so do as you will but you dont want to try and over-work yourself on this when you probably have loads of other stuff to do. About this illusion I think the best is sandros’s origional as it is easier to copy someones illusion than make it your self (I also prefer the theme)