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 […]
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 […]
To say that “Brusspup has done it again” would be an understatement. In the following video, Brusspup creates a series of very realistic anamorphic illusions that will simply blow you away. The objects look so real that you want to reach out and touch them… and then he moves the paper revealing the illusion. Which […]
The Mirage 3D Hologram Generator creates a small, full-color hologram using curved mirrors. It looks like an object is hovering above the unit, but when you go to touch it, there is nothing but air. The object is actually located inside of the unit itself. This item makes a terrific gift or conversation piece. If […]
Using specially-designed transparencies, Brusspup creates a series of animated illusions in today’s video. From running felines to pacman gobbling bullet, these animations prove to be both simple and amazing. But would you expect anything else from a Brusspup video?
