As always, Francis Tabary keeps on amazing us with his creative works of art. This time he came up with such a clever ambigram, one that works in a way I never thought would be possible! What Francis managed to pull off, he designed an object of such formation that when mirrored horizontally forms a readable word, and when you further vertically-mirror this whole word, you get to see a whole new meaning. As simple as the resulting photo appears, think how hard it must have been forming two words just by writing upper half of the first one? Like we said, half of the word ONDE is reflected in a horizontally-positioned mirror, which makes the entire word. ONDE is then reflected in a vertical mirror, resulting with ECHO ambigram. Now if I only knew French…
Nice one. First?
Wow! I’m so glad you pointed out that this was reflected two different ways or I’d never have noticed that the bottom half of the first word was actually a reflection. Even knowing that, it still took me forever to see it. It’s quite beautiful.
I fear he’s stretched this one a bit too far. The first word seems more like OHDE, followed by ICHO. The execution is brilliant, but the initial concept is totally flawed.
I have to say, this is the first illusion ever that I’ve seen on here that I’ve been disillusioned with. You, on the other hand, seem absolutely fired-up by it. Funny old world, isn’t it?
The second word looks like “ECHO” to me.
Wow, that’s nice :P
the N in onde obviously doesn’t look like an N, but rather like the H in echo… and the E’s of course are seriously modified
Admittedly creating this kind of installation is not easy, but if this is without a good context (explaining the onde and echo) I’m not sure I’d give it such a high rating
I likey
woah thats actually pretty cool
Onde means Moon in French.
And by “Moon” I mean “Wave.”
Got confused with another language, sorry =D.
I didnt get it at first, but then i was like “OHHH, awesome ;)”, lol
oh its french… i was wondering what ohde was…
onde is french for wave – also as in sun ray (energy wave) or conceivably sound waves i.e. echo – that would be clever but im just not sure if its right… i mean – echo is a word in french…
and i gotta say a reflection of an h is an n… poor work…
What is onde?
whats ‘OHDOI’?
it’s neat, but I don’t think ‘Onde’ is a word in the English language(at least not a word I’ve ever heard of), so the first half means nothing to me.
‘onde’ in french means ‘wave’
cool
I had a quick look in at googles translater and it came up with the following for ONDE:
Language English meaning
danish Evil
Czech yonder
French wave
Croatian there
Catalan waves
Albanian Kink
Afrikaans at
Swahili Monde
Slovak yonder
Might be ONDI
Strangley that translates to Bondi in Welsh
I might have a go at the 4 smaller words a bit latter, but I’m struggling a bit at working out the letters.
Onde is french for WAVE, also Echo is a french word meaning the same in English
I liked the illusion
“Onde” means “wave”, and echo is the same word in French and English. ;) Nice work !
Onde means “wave”
What does ONDE mean?
simply amazing
Pretty cool. At first, I was reading OHDE, hadn’t thought of looking for a french word. By the way, “onde” means wave (as in a heat wave, shockwave…)
Onde means wave as in the soundwave that is echoed.
any1 know what ohde means?!??! it could be ‘oh de (the) echo…..’ wierd
awesome! :}
first?
it says Ohde..
cool
btw first to respond
Nice illusion!
The illusion is even more cleaver since ONDE means WAVE and ECHO means… ECHO. Two words related to sound.
According to Google Translate, it means “wave” (noun, not verb).
Dare I say i’m not that impressed? Sorry! Although it is quite clever this is the sort of thing that students have done in grade 5 and 6 (ages 9-11). So it’s not that it’s not interesting or anything like that, but not as difficult to do as you may think.
I read: OHDI ECHO
However, ohdi is not a word, as far as I know.
The first word looks like OHDE, not ONDE.
at first you think you are looking at the right. it doesn’t make any sense. but when you look at the left one, you see the word “echo” and then you understand why its a double reflection
SMART!!! but how is the 2nd letter in ONDE an N? it looks more like an H to me
“onde” means “wave”, and in poetry is often used to refer to water (in a river, a lake, etc)
Nice.
the original unreflected words ends in u n t.
the fist letter is a sideways c. I’m just a messenger.
EVERY ONE THIS MEANS WAVE ECHO IN FRENCH
YOUR WELCOME!!!!!!!!!
i think the whole ONDE thing is just so that there are these random shapes, you put some mirrors around them and they become ECHO