In May 2009, Greg “The Grease” Lehman showed us a relatively new approach to 3D Anamorphic Artwork. His tactics involved similar moves some of them chalk artists use, but with use of a printer we managed to avoid the artistic factor, where normally we would have to get our hands “dirty” to actually paint the image. This time I found a creation done by one of his fans, where you can see the result is quite amazing. Apparently the Spalding we see is just a painting on the street, but when seen from certain angle looks impossibly real. In fact, it’s so realistic that I have my doubts on this one. Perhaps the user that submitted this, sent me the photo of a real ball (by mistake?) that the author used to guide him in his painting process. You be the judge!
Apparently this Spalding basketball ball is just painted on the street, though...
To see how the painting came to be, see the gallery:
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PAINTING! look at the ball’s shadow and the tree’s shadow
This one is very cool. Hope children don’t jump in front of cars to rescue the ball, though.
i have some doubts too, but if that was fake then im just wondering wat would happen if cars come by…lol
You can tell it isn’t a real ball, look at the other shadows cast by the trees, if the ball was real the shadow would be on the opposite side of the ball from where it is now.
Yes, that is the picture of the real ball..
See step number 2.
http://www.instructables.com/id/3D-Anamorphic-Street-Art/
I seen the illusion on instuctables.com, which happens to have my instuctable on making 3D street art.
http://www.instructables.com/id/3D-Anamorphic-Street-Art/
Those photos don’t really add up IMO. The last ’stretched’ photo has all the letters SPALDING but the one where he’s lying down only has half…
It’s so clear that pictures 2 and 3 from the gallery don’t depict the so called “illusion” of the post.
woah, it looks so real… xD
I think it is painted because the shadow is not consistan with the car behind it.
I learned in defensive driving that when you see a ball in the street, expect to see kid running out to get it from between the parked cars. Wonder how the artist would manage that.
Uncanny.
The shadow sor of ruins it :P
I don’t buy it; the details don’t seem to match up. Nice try, but try again.
cool my mum says “it never is” lol
1st comment!its AMAZING!!!!
shadow’s on the wrong side
but it’s still amazing
The shadow is off only a little, or it could be my eyes. Compare with the car.
WOW, I would of said no way is that a painting, but it is!!!
Fake – even the picture of the basketball taken near the drain to “prove” it’s warped appearance from a “different” angle has simply been stretched to make it look like its a different perspective. The “illusion” is a real ball.
I remember seeing this on instructables when i was looking into doing one of my own. thats the picture of the real ball used for reference, as the author himself said above. For all the people saying look at the shadow, look at the shadow of the car….haha….
whoops greg grease isnt the author, but he said that….my bad….
it doesn’t seem to match up but that’s the genius of it, right? it was painted all warped so that it would appear correct from a certain angle.
the ball has the same shadow angle (or close) as the cars, plus the tree’s shadow looks like it is actually behind the ball, and the balls in the other pictures dont even look the same color!! Im going to say its a real ball
speaking of color check this one out…very good…
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091004.html
The shadow is acctually ok, look at the shadow from the car.
Besides, there is alot of difference between the ball in the first and third picture – different color, text and structure.
Then again – the artist’s obviously already admitted the first picture to be the real ball and not the painting, so no further proof needed.
Look at the Suns angle on the shadows the ball is going the wrong way….. so i is either painted… or Photoshop ed a real ball that was taken at another time of day
The shadows don’t tell you anything, the shadows on the cars support the basketball’s shadow. Also the shadow of the tree seems to disappear behind the basketball.
I think the main image is either a real ball or a different drawing. The main image and the one with the man’s foot on the ball appear to be taken from virtually the same position (look at pole in pbackground), but the perspective differs.
The drain in the main image is missing from the image with the foot on top. Also, there is a crack in the road beside the ball with the foot on top, and there is no crack in the main image (although I will admit it is possible a small crack could be “hidden” due to the slightly out of focus shot).
I think the whole thing is fake, look at the ball’s shadow and the car’s shadow, they appear to be going in the same direction. Now look at the tree’s shadow, it goes in a completely different direction.
The point is, this photo was somehow altered using an app. so, I wouldn’t consider it an illusion.
Hmm, i already voted on this “illusion” with a high amount of stars only to find out thats its actually a real ball and we’ve all been duped. I shall not be continuing to visit this website anymore i think its stupid that things like should happen here. Goodbye forever!
real ball… for those “shadow” spotters… the shadow of the grey vehicle is also facing the same direction. plus look at the post form the guy with the interactables website.
a very fun illusion but unfortunately the pic is of a real ball.
This is super stupid! ok that looks like a real basketball! no one can draw that good! look at the photos! Different huh? this concludes that the illusion is no illusion at all!
thats so a painting the balls shadow is darker than the trees
its a painting. look at the shadows of the trees, then, of the ball. it makes it seem that there are 2 different light sources
if you look at the shadow real hardd, you can seethings of the ground. but if you look at the top half of the pic, its got shadows goin 1 way and the camera was on maybe liek a tripod and then another pic was taken at a diff time of day and the prolly photoshopped em togehter
that looks so real!!
Wow that looks sooooooo real!
OKAY, ur theories about the “shadows’ and crap are all retarded. They used a real ball for reference when they painted it. They took an actual pic of a ball and elongated the pic with a computer and then they painted it on a frickin road. OH, and for those who can’t read, “spalding” is written on the frikin’ ball in the pic whereas it’s half-assedly written on the painting giving it away completely… you guys with ur stinkin “shadows” ………. HAHAHAHAHAHA DUMBASSES!!!