architecture – YLoveIllusions https://www.yloveillusions.com/en Yet another optical illusion Thu, 31 May 2018 21:07:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.yloveillusions.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/cropped-green_blue_spirals-32x32.gif architecture – YLoveIllusions https://www.yloveillusions.com/en 32 32 Mix optical illusions and real buildings https://www.yloveillusions.com/en/2019/06/20/mix-optical-illusions-and-real-buildings/ Thu, 20 Jun 2019 19:47:07 +0000 https://yloveillusions.com/en/?p=863

Much more on Gizmodo.

]]> Portraiture in the architecture https://www.yloveillusions.com/en/2018/02/20/portraiture-in-the-architecture/ Tue, 20 Feb 2018 18:19:24 +0000 https://yloveillusions.com/en/?p=809 Two people (Daniel Rueda and Anna Devís Benet), a few buidlings, plenty of optical madness.

Rueda Devis Benet

Rueda Devis Benet

]]> Nikola Olic – Buildings without a limit https://www.yloveillusions.com/en/2018/01/20/nikola-olic-buildings-without-a-limit/ Sat, 20 Jan 2018 18:10:53 +0000 https://yloveillusions.com/en/?p=803 Serbian photographer Nikola Olic lives in Dallas, Texas. His photographs testify to his mad love of buildings and cities. Their architectures are the occasion to get lost in the most derange perspectives.

Nikola Olic - Rectangle triangle

Nikola Olic - Buidling slices

]]> The illusions machine of Kokichi Sugihara https://www.yloveillusions.com/en/2016/02/19/the-illusions-machine-of-kokichi-sugihara/ Fri, 19 Feb 2016 21:32:03 +0000 https://yloveillusions.com/en/?p=753 Kokichi Sugihara teaches at the Meiji University in Tokyo and presented a superb optical illusion.

Source: Nautilus.

]]> Big fake words in a gymnasium https://www.yloveillusions.com/en/2012/05/29/big-fake-words-in-a-gymnasium/ Tue, 29 May 2012 12:21:17 +0000 https://yloveillusions.com/en/?p=592

After the photo, a video showing how you can write so big words hanging in the middle of a gymnasium.

In The Gym from Doyle Partners on Vimeo.

]]> How to slow cars with an optical illusion? https://www.yloveillusions.com/en/2011/02/05/how-to-slow-cars-with-an-optical-illusion/ Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:48:25 +0000 https://yloveillusions.com/en/?p=449 An anamorphosis is used to show something that is only recognizable from a certain location and in a certain angle. Most of them are classically hidden inside paintings. But a city decided to use one anamorphosis to make car drivers believe that there is a child playing on the road, forcing them to slow down… where children may play and be at risk from speeding cars.

Slow down or run over the playing girl!

It would have been even better in open air. But this one is already quite nice.

Source: Geekosystem.

]]> Architectural Illusion from an Optical Projection https://www.yloveillusions.com/en/2010/10/09/architectural-illusion-from-an-optical-projection/ Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:23:22 +0000 https://yloveillusions.com/en/?p=395 Very impressive demonstration of what can be done with a beautiful video projection when it uses as best as possible technical means to make appear what is often ready to become a full blown optical illusion… in architecture.


YouTube link

The designer: www.projectieopgebouwen.nl.

]]> M.C. Escher in LEGO bricks https://www.yloveillusions.com/en/2010/08/28/m-c-escher-in-lego-bricks/ Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:45:00 +0000 https://yloveillusions.com/en/?p=359 M.C.Escher paintings and engravings are playing havoc with perspective and the way our senses and brain build and internal image of what is visible. I would not believe it possible to reproduce them with such a rigid structure as the one provided by Lego bricks.

Andrew Lipson is not the guy to be stopped by mere impossibility. He started with a simple deformation:

Escher's Balcony in LEGO by Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu, inspired by M.C. Escher's Balcony (1945)
Escher's Balcony in LEGO by Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu, inspired by M.C. Escher's Balcony (1945)

After this little play, he went to much more serious work, one engraving that is not possible in the real world. A few inconsistencies, but a good copy of one of the most famous M.C.Escher paintings:

Escher's Belvedere in LEGO by Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu, inspired by M.C. Escher's Belvedere (1958)
Escher's Belvedere in LEGO by Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu, inspired by M.C. Escher's Belvedere (1958)

My preference goes to Relativity (and what it reminds me of the movie “The name of the rose“, with Sean Connery):

Escher's Relativity in LEGO by Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu, inspired by M.C. Escher's Relativity (1953)
Escher's Relativity in LEGO by Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu, inspired by M.C. Escher's Relativity (1953)

Then, a completely warped perspective made out of these little LEGO bricks:

Escher's Waterfall in LEGO by Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu, inspired by M.C. Escher's Waterfall (1961)
Escher's Waterfall in LEGO by Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu, inspired by M.C. Escher's Waterfall (1961)

Source: Neatorama.

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