{"id":287873,"date":"2010-02-06T17:42:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T22:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5465883"},"modified":"2010-02-06T17:42:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T22:42:10","slug":"a-brief-survey-of-recent-tape-based-anamorphic-illusions-opticalillusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/287873","title":{"rendered":"A Brief Survey of Recent Tape-Based Anamorphic Illusions [Opticalillusions]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- videoId: 5qA-WcM6Nvs --><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nnewVideoPlayer( {\"type\":\"video\",\"player\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/v\\\/5qA-WcM6Nvs&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22\",\"customParams\":[],\"width\":500,\"height\":412,\"ratio\":0.824,\"flashData\":\"\",\"embedName\":null,\"objectId\":null,\"noEmbed\":false,\"source\":\"youtube\"} );\n<\/script><!-- \/videoId: 5qA-WcM6Nvs --> With just a roll or two of painters tape, some patience, and a willingness to forfeit the respectability of their apartments (except, maybe, from a single perspective), some clever artists have created a very impressive collection of tape-based illusions.<\/p>\n<p>\nEarlier today, Boing Boing posted this neat <em>Back to the Future<\/em>-inspired piece featuring an impressively detailed DeLorean rendered with painters tape. Kudos to YouTube user Wablamo for immortalizing everyone&#8217;s favorite time traveling automobile in such an appropriately mind-boggling medium.<\/p>\n<p>But the true hero of the anamorphic painters tape illusion is a YouTube user who goes by the name of BrussPup. I&#8217;ve watched BrussPup evolve over these last few weeks from his first experiments in the form&mdash;when he was, indeed, just a pup&mdash;up through our current moment in which BrussPup stands as a titan of tape-based illusions.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s start back with his humble beginnings. BrussPup&#8217;s first piece, &#8220;X Room Illusion!,&#8221; was a relatively simple undertaking but it betrayed the artist&#8217;s natural ability for this particular endeavor:<br \/>\n<!-- videoId: NB6DSKJZ1T4 --><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nnewVideoPlayer( {\"type\":\"video\",\"player\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/v\\\/NB6DSKJZ1T4&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22\",\"customParams\":[],\"width\":500,\"height\":412,\"ratio\":0.824,\"flashData\":\"\",\"embedName\":null,\"objectId\":null,\"noEmbed\":false,\"source\":\"youtube\"} );\n<\/script><!-- \/videoId: NB6DSKJZ1T4 --><\/p>\n<p>\nA week later, we were treated to &#8220;Crazy Cube Illusion!,&#8221; a more complex, confident effort that garnered a corresponding increase in YouTube views and blog notoriety:<br \/>\n<!-- videoId: skotd6g7etU --><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nnewVideoPlayer( {\"type\":\"video\",\"player\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/v\\\/skotd6g7etU&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22\",\"customParams\":[],\"width\":500,\"height\":412,\"ratio\":0.824,\"flashData\":\"\",\"embedName\":null,\"objectId\":null,\"noEmbed\":false,\"source\":\"youtube\"} );\n<\/script><!-- \/videoId: skotd6g7etU --><\/p>\n<p>\nEmboldened, BrussPup quickly offered up his next piece, &#8220;Pac-man Illusion!,&#8221; which was noteworthy for spanning all the way down his hallway and incorporating a piece reflected by a mirror, which just piled extra mind-boggling on top of the regular mind-blogging to which we had grown accustomed:<br \/>\n<!-- videoId: xQp_oCgAH-E --><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nnewVideoPlayer( {\"type\":\"video\",\"player\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/v\\\/xQp_oCgAH-E&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22\",\"customParams\":[],\"width\":500,\"height\":412,\"ratio\":0.824,\"flashData\":\"\",\"embedName\":null,\"objectId\":null,\"noEmbed\":false,\"source\":\"youtube\"} );\n<\/script><!-- \/videoId: xQp_oCgAH-E --><\/p>\n<p>\nBrussPup&#8217;s most recent piece, &#8220;Nintendo Illusion!,&#8221; is certainly his most ambitious effort to date. In this illusion, which took BrussPup fifteen hours to complete, blacklights and white paper were employed to create a glowing Nintendo controller:<br \/>\n<!-- videoId: foF13Ezxt5c --><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nnewVideoPlayer( {\"type\":\"video\",\"player\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/v\\\/foF13Ezxt5c&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22\",\"customParams\":[],\"width\":500,\"height\":412,\"ratio\":0.824,\"flashData\":\"\",\"embedName\":null,\"objectId\":null,\"noEmbed\":false,\"source\":\"youtube\"} );\n<\/script><!-- \/videoId: foF13Ezxt5c --><\/p>\n<p>\nThere&#8217;s no telling what&#8217;s next in the world of tape-based anamorphic illusions. Has BrussPup retired his tape roll forever? Will Wablamo usurp his title as preeminent anamoprhic illusionist? We&#8217;ll just have to wait, squint our eyes, scratch our heads, and see. 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