What You Think You Are Looking At Is Not Actually There At All

Felice Varini perfects the art of large scale optical illusion. His perspective-localized paintings create the illusions of three-dimensional shapes floating in space...but they're actually just graphics painted on to the walls and structures that they seem to be floating against. His technique is one of anamorphosis, a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a specific vantage point to reconstitute the image.
Anamorphis sounds complicated, but it's best illustrated by Varini's work:


































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