{"id":12162,"date":"2006-02-10T14:26:31","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T14:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/02\/optical-illusions-in-space-on-the-street.html"},"modified":"2006-02-10T14:26:31","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T14:26:31","slug":"optical_illusions_in_space_on_the_street-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/10\/optical_illusions_in_space_on_the_street-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Optical illusions in space &#038; on the street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The work of two artists is opposite &amp; complementary, creating flatness in space &amp; depth in flatness:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.varini.org\/\" \/>Felice Varini<\/a> creates 2D images in 3D space, producing the appearance of flat shapes when seen from a particular spot.  Samples of his work are collected <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2loop.com\/3drooms.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linesandcolors.com\/2006\/01\/19\/felice-varini\/\" \/>here<\/a>, and an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.varini.org\/05vid\/vidb01.html\">animation<\/a> on his own site depicts how the illusions emerge &amp; disintegrate based on one&#8217;s perspective.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurtwenner.com\/street\/\" \/>Kurt Wenner<\/a> rightly calls himself a &#8220;Master Street Painter,&#8221; producing amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurtwenner.com\/images\/cocito.jpg\">images<\/a> that create the illusion of depth on asphalt, concrete, and stone.  On his site he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurtwenner.com\/q-and-a.htm\">discusses<\/a> the impermanence of his medium, comparing fragile chalk renderings to music &amp; calling their creation a performance. <\/ul>\n<p>[Obligatory, if completely tenuous, Photoshop-related tie-in: anyone remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blivet\">impossible object<\/a> that formed the original icon for Photoshop plug-ins?]  [Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshophalloffame.com\/winners\/mpawliger.html\">Marc Pawliger<\/a> for the links.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The work of two artists is opposite &amp; complementary, creating flatness in space &amp; depth in flatness: Felice Varini creates 2D images in 3D space, producing the appearance of flat shapes when seen from a particular spot. Samples of his work are collected here and here, and an animation on his own site depicts how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}