In honour of the 3d magic spectacular that we shall be appearing in, on Channel4 on Monday, I thought it would be appropriate to show you some of my favourite optical illusions that play with our sense of three dimensional reality.
First, one of my favourite videos from Marco Tempest, watch out for Marco in the 3d special too!
This drawing by artist Istvan Orosz really bends our perception of depth and space, especially the placement of the subjects’ feet on the stairs.
Inspired by tricks like the one above, this seemingly impossible arrangement of dice from amazing artist/sculptor Shigeo Fukuda confuses us as to what is in front and what is behind.
Fukuda’s sculpture of MC Escher’s “Belvedere” is also breathtaking.
For those of you not familiar with the original drawing click here.
Finally, this optical principal is very clever and shows us that our brain can be easily tricked into assuming the wrong thing.
You can make your own version of this dragon by printing out the template here.
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Elizabeth Nov 12 2009 - 1:28 pm
That’s really cool. I love the dragon.
Jadey_lea Nov 12 2009 - 6:33 pm
yeah i agree with elizabeth, that dragon is wicked ha bisky!
oh and i once knew how the dice triangle looks how it is…yeah ive forgotten…i read it somewhere in a book but it was with a snooker triangle thing…oh actualy i know one bit of how its done, just remembered a slice of goodness…but i’ll leave it for others…and me to figure all of it out…wow this is a long comment.
jade
jadelwadel Nov 13 2009 - 8:19 pm
I love the dice triangle. Jade x
ObeRon Nov 14 2009 - 9:19 pm
The Dragon and that 3d cube were Awesome!
Jade Nov 18 2009 - 6:56 pm
I think the dice illusion is amazing. It makes you so dizzy trying to look at it and totally confuses you, it’s awesome.
Hanna Nov 27 2009 - 12:47 am
Oh, Barry.
You never fail to impress us with your clever blog entries.
It really is an intriguing subject.
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jattin Jul 2 2011 - 7:47 am
i like ur dice trick
nd i wnt to do it