A number of ambigrams from Michigan State University professor Punya Mishra have been featured on An Optical Illusion in the past. I just discovered a short video that he created at the end of last year wishing everyone an outstanding 2013. In the video, he uses a bit of anamorphic trickery to fool the viewers […]
Noah Scalin likes skulls. He is the founder of the Skull-A-Day project. Now in its sixth year, the project features a new image of a skull every day. In 2012, Scalin created the following anamorphic skull using 497 VHS cassette tapes as a commission of the TCC Visual Arts Center in Tidewater Virginia. The skull […]
A series of balls appear to roll up hill. However, as you will quickly suspect, everything is not always what it appears to be. Once the camera moves to a different angle, the true shape of these ramps are revealed. Through an anamorphic trick in their design, the ramps appear to be angled upward […]
Kurt Wenner used to work at NASA. Now he is one of the most recognized 3D street artists in the world. His anamorphic painting below features Spiderman flying high above the streets and slinging webs that you can actually walk across. Or at least you can make it appear that you are doing so if […]
Leon Keer and the Streetpainting 3D team completed this anamorphic sidewalk chalk drawing at the 2012 Sarasota Chalk Festival. The drawing depicts a claw/crane amusement game full of teddy bears and dolls waiting to be grabbed. In the video, you can see the image take shape. Even more interesting are the views of the image […]
Like many others, I am a big fan of 3D sidewalk chalk art and enjoy featuring it on the site. I am not exactly sure who the artist behind this one is, but would love to find out. If you know the artist, please let us know in the comments. This artwork really brightens up […]
British artist James Hopkins creates very interesting and very original sculptures. Perhaps you recall his anamorphic South Park Illusion or his bookshelf that resembled a skull. In the video below, he discusses an outdoor sculpture that he created in the city of Wembley in the United Kingdom. The sculpture sits near a busy section of […]
