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Animated Illusion

posted by eric3579

1 year 7 months ago • 4955 views

tags: illusion, trick, solution, optical

Very cool animated illusion and how it works.

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That is cool.

written by lucidgroove | 1 year 7 months ago | CH

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I want that book! What is it and where can I get it?

written by garmachi

| 1 year 7 months ago | CH

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Amazing.

written by 8777

| 1 year 7 months ago | CH

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Really?

I thought this was waaayyy over dramatic.

written by 9619 | 1 year 7 months ago | CH

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>> ^garmachi:
I want that book! What is it and where can I get it?

Same here! Awesome! *art

written by maatc

| 1 year 7 months ago | CH

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Adding video to channels (Art) - requested by maatc.

written by siftbot

| 1 year 7 months ago | CH

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Makes my eyes hurt.

But Still cool.

written by NordlichReiter

| 1 year 7 months ago | CH

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My kid has this book which is a similar idea. They're pretty neat.

written by jmzero | 1 year 7 months ago | CH

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It's very nice. I wouldn't call it an illusion, though. Our visual system is doing exactly what you would expect it to do. The figures we're seeing are actually being rendered by the grate. It's a clever animation system, not an illusion.

written by rychan | 1 year 7 months ago | CH

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It looks like it wouldn't be too hard to make these with Photoshop and a printer. The overlay looks like the tough part, but I think you can laser print onto overlay material, correct? It would also be a challenge getting an animation that cycles smoothly.

written by 9453 | 1 year 7 months ago | CH

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It's a zoetrope... in a book. Pretty much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoetrope

written by Nebosuke | 1 year 7 months ago | CH

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Theoretically, please inform me if I'm wrong because I definitely should not be theorizing - but if the space between the lines are laid out correctly in photoshop - for the bar template one should be able to knock out each animation with the correct spacing. That is too say that the author of this video made it seem like he had the correct spacing info - but any spacing should work - his spacing looks like it worked well with only little movement required in order to trigger the animation. It's basically playing with white space. Tell me if I'm missing something I'd love to give this a shot.

written by 8296 | 1 year 7 months ago | CH

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Speaking of Zoetropes, check out these larger than life ones
http://www.videosift.com/video/Burning-Man-zoetropes-very-cool-art-installations

written by eric3579

| 1 year 7 months ago | CH

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So, I just realized that I've seen this same technique used as animated wind ornaments. The technique is called parallax perception. Well, now everyone has to figure out how to make these in color.

written by 8296 | 1 year 7 months ago | CH

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agreed, complacentnation, i would like to see this done 1) in colour 2) supersized scale 3) as light graffiti projected onto large buildings 4) 3d rendered 5) interactive

light gaffiti examples:

http://www.photopumpkin.com/photo-blog/light-graffiti/

written by pipp3355

| 1 year 7 months ago | CH

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Yeah I just did this in illustrator and photoshop real quick - quickly laid out a bar grid in illustrator. Took a star in illustrator duplicated it many times (some "movement" at interval opacity - ie object 1 - 100% - object 2 - 95% obj 3 -90, obj 4 - 95 obj 5 - back to 100). Pasted the bar bones star - then the gradated moving image. Duplicated the moving image about 5 times adjusting it's movement in photoshop. Then lastly pasted in the bar, moved the bar down the row knocking out each animation in it's succession. And wham - there it is. Well, this may not work for animating intricate animations but if you're like me and you like creating animated rorschachs then it works, hehe. One interesting thing I'm messing around with, is after knocking the bar out is to paint in something else at 80% opacity when the white had been knocked out -the image then morphs into what you painted in. Also, inverting the image is pretty neat.

written by 8296 | 1 year 7 months ago | CH

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Hey, how cool, my 18mth old son was JUST GIVEN a book that uses this... except that each page of the book does this automatically as you open the page (the plastic overlay is embedded into each page like a window that is pulled when you open it.

I just read it to him the other night and thought "Woah, this is awesome"... so yeah, cool to see it here only a couple of nights after I'd seen it 'in the wild'

written by spoco2

| 1 year 7 months ago | CH

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what is the name of this (or the book you have) book and who publishes it?

written by 8296 | 1 year 7 months ago | CH

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>> ^garmachi:
I want that book! What is it and where can I get it?

HERE it is on amazon.com

written by garmachi

| 1 year 7 months ago | CH

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Similar post over here:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Animated-Optical-Illusion

written by maatc