It took Brusspup about 10 hours to create this anamorphic optical illusion paying homage to the 1982 movie Tron. He describes the process of taping the Christmas lights to the wall as “painstaking” as they kept falling off. Thankfully, he was patient enough to see it through to completion. When discussing the illusion, he offers […]
Is Ben Heine suffering from a multiple personality disorder or is this just an optical illusion? Here the real illustrator can be seen with an over-sized red pencil facing the anamorphic photographer. The series of photographs below show how the sketch evolved on a giant sheet of white paper. Ben first drew the outline of […]
If you were to climb down this ladder, where do you suppose you would be once you got to the bottom? Artist Nico Laan drew this anamorphic sand ladder on the beach and then used a camera mounted to a kite to take a photograph of it from the proper angle. The person standing in […]
This anamorphic cube was created in 2011 by Alexis Facca for a promotion for Sqwear, an online fashion store exclusively dedicated to young designers. The cube required fourteen cans of spray paint to complete and was painted across several walls, the floor, and the ceiling. Facca is originally from France, but currently resides in Belgium. […]
Mach505 from Truly Design created this anamorphic painting using acrylic and spray paints on the floor and walls of an abandoned school near Torino, Italy. The painting features an uroboros (an ancient symbol depicting a snake eating its own tail) which symbolizes continuity and represents the cyclical nature of things. Additional photographs of this painting […]
Today’s illusion is called Platforms. It is an art installation created by Aakash Nihalani using tape on the wall and ground for Parrish Art Museum in Long Island, New York. This anamorphic creation gives the impression that four square platforms are floating in space. The man seen in the picture appears to attempting to jump […]
The best way for me to know what type of optical illusions you want to see more of is to hear directly from you. One easy way that you can do this (without taking too much time out of your busy day) is to vote for each post. If certain types of illusions are consistently […]
