Optical Illusions

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Manfred Stader and Edgar Müller are Die Strassenmaler, or 'the street painter'. Having travelled the world and studied many types of painting, they now run their own business in Germany, creating pavement paintings and street art.

The picture above was created for the Heineken Champions Football League in Paris in 2005. Heineken invited employees from all over the world to come to Paris to see the final. On the day before the final, there were many fringe events that happened around Montmartre. One event was the creation of this piece of pavement art, showing the two opposing captains, Henry and Puyol. As well as being an anamorphic picture - as you can see from the distorted view that you get if you view the picture from the other side - there was a nice touch with the shadow of the football making the ball seem to float in mid air!


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READ THESE!!!

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For this painting, an advertising agency commissioned the artists to create this three dimensional image of the new Smart Forfour car in Hamburg. Again, this is an anamorphic painting, with the actual picture on the ground being 25 metres in length! An added problem was that the artists had their painting washed away by rain three times!

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Here is an arial view, showing how the painting appears from a different angle.

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In June 2005, the above artists created this painting called 'Stuntcity'. Situated in the centre of Berlin in Potzdamer Platz, itself the scence of major rebuilding, this painting gives you a view from the (imaginary) 22nd floor. Don't jump!


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Finally, at the Moose Jaw Prairie Arts Festival in 2007, Manfred Stader and Edgar Müller turned River Street into... a raging river heading for a giant waterfall. Spectators were able to place themselves in the picture - like the two people here who look as if they are about to be swept over the edge!

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cool one

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If you have ever wanted to go for a drive, and were not sure where to go, maybe this is the car for you!

I guess you can call this an optical illusion, although it is actually a clever piece of work in a digital graphics package.

Not sure who the original artist is, but maybe the caption suugests that you will be able to import this car from Russia sometime!

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Some interesting articles regarding illusions

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Fore-Edge Painting

Some old books contain a wonderful surprise - if you know where to look! Because a fore-edge painting is hidden, someone who does not know what they are looking for will miss it completely. You need to take the pages and fan them out slightly, and if there is a fore-edge painting, it will appear.
To create a fore-edge painting, the pages of the book are fanned out and then held in a vice. The painting is then applied, using water colours. Once the painting is dry, the book can be released from the vice. If this was all, you would still be able to see the fore-edge painting on the edge of the book even though it was flat, so to conceal it, the edge of the book is hidden either by using gilt, or sometimes marbled. Now the fore-edge painting would be invisible, unless you fanned out the pages.

Simply painting the visible edge of the book is a very old idea, maybe a thousand years old. But hiding a fore-edge painting under gilt dates from the 17th century. William Edwards of Halifax, who were bookbinders and booksellers, created some of the best examples of this art, from around 1750. Such was the demand, they opened a shop in Pall Mall in London.

Fore-edge painting became quite widespread, and continued into the 19th and 20th centuries. It is possible to create two quite separate fore-edge paintings within a single book by first fanning the pages one way and creating the first painting; then when that has dried you can fan the pages the other way, and create a second, completely different, painting. Traditionally the fore-edge painting would be applied and then the gilt. But it is also possible to take a book that already has a gilt edge, and apply a fore-edge painting to it.

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See the optical illusion below.Do you find anything strange? If not then check carefully you might see some thing strange. (noxide's favorite.. )

Hint : See the road, that is not a normal road

Man I wish I was part of that!! I love nakedness
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This is a very rare phenomonon described by Prof. Marcel Minnaert in his classic book "Light and Color in the Outdoors". It is, in fact, a psychological effect. Notice the dark shadow like area between the moon and the surface of the ocean. Place your hand over the bright, reflected moonlight in the ocean, and the dark area disappears!!

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