Recursive Insanity

An excellent example of an Escheresque image created with modern digital manipulation instead of pen or paint.

Pinky Dinky Dave Thinks Big
Flickr Artist: dmswart
Tags: photos, optical_illusions, illusions, art

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Whichever, Optical Illusion Animation

This film is the creation of Yutaka Akita. This short film has bits and pieces of many favorite illusion topics such as recursive, fractals, tessellations, and perspective. He describes this video as follows:

"This is application experiment of optical illusions commonplace in 2-D animations in 3-D spaces. The animation develops through illusions caused by concurrent different perspectives of simple lines and surfaces. It is a non-narrative film aiming to make viewers feel bizarre yet fascinated by a feeling of floating between real and unreal."

whichever
Uploaded by yutakaaki

For more films from this artist go to this site. Here is a short biography he provided on his Dailymotion page.

"Born and bred in Yokohama, Japan. After a study of Byzantine art at Waseda University, surprisingly Yutaka started his career in the film industry where crazy yet creative people are working hard every night and day to make something amazing. Couple of years after, he alone went all the way to the UK to cultivate his style and techniques as an animator/director. And here he is, working on a variety of projects including promotion video for Madame V spring/summer collection 2012, James Bryan “Beautiful World” video, etc. He also worked for Johny Mourgue, one of the film director in FLYNN Productions and made a pitch for Beck’s album “Cell Phone’s Dead” TV spot. *showreel available on requests."

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Escher's Infinite Circle - II

Stacy of She Dreams in Digital has an excellent site full of interesting digital art creations. She offers many fine prints for sale and many great fractals suitable for wallpaper free of charge.

The below is crossposted with permission of Stacy Reed from She Dreams in Digital.

This one was created using the script ~ datagram wrote upon my request and though it takes some real manipulating, in effect, Escher's idea to create an infinite pattern in a predefined shape can be achieved and in such a beautiful way.

Those of you who are familiar with M.C Escher have probably seen his woodcut series titled Circle Limit I - IV in which the center pattern is the largest, and scales down considerably until it is infinite around the perimeter. The other day, I applied a few scripts, and pushed Apophysis to it's limits until something like this began to show. I was truly amazed, and I was so obsessed with this, that I begged Matteo to help me write a script so that I could obtain these results again. I sent him some of my sample flames and he figured it out from there.

I am always amazed at the different things I can achieve with fractal software like Apophysis. With this script, we can now put Escher's vision into a new modern perspective. M.C. Escher was brilliant. Indeed, he was one of the most fascinating artists ever to grace the planet, and he gets all the credit for this one. If you don't know of him, (and I can't imagine that there are many fractal lovers out there who don't) you need to do a google search right now. Go on... do it. You won't be disappointed!

Created with Apophysis only. No postwork.

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Tarot Bridge to Infinity

J.M. Berger creator of Chaosdancer created a Chaos tarot deck based on fractal images. He also provides (for a price) an online tarot reading for those interested. Tarot readings can provide individuals insight or as some might say the illusion of insight. Below is the image he uses for the Priestess card.

I included this image here because it provides us with the Optical Illusion of a Bridge to Infinity. Does anyone here dare walkout on this bridge and see where it leads? If you are interested in some amazing fractal prints or the Tarot then drop in on his site and check out his creations.

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Triquetra Fractal

The below is from a New Zealand blog called "Not Quite Perfect." Dzeni is the site's proprietor, she focuses this blog on Fractals many of which she created using Chaoscope. The image below I believe is a recent creation of hers.
At the request of a reader she created a fractal based on a triquetra and this is the result she posted. This falls into the category of an illusion of science. Without the modern personal computer creating these images would be next to impossible.

Update: Dzeni says, "The image above was created using Apophysis." Thanks Dzeni!

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Snow Illusions

There are many illusion forms that snow can take. Calvin is a master of the snow illusion as demonstrated below in Calvin's "Snowman House of Horror" and his "Swimmer and the Snow Sharks".

"Snowman House of Horror"

"Swimmer and the Snow Sharks"

Of course these illusions can be created in real snow also. Below they have had to rope off an area to keep people away from the rare snow lizard.

Of course you have to watch out for those giant snow big wheels. This one might have hurt someone. They were lucky this time but really parents have to watch their kids closer.

The real illusion of snow can be seen clearly in this snow scene. Not the fact that Bambi's father's spirit can be found watching over him, but the blanket of white snow that covers everything.

Snow itself is the true illusion. We walk in it, play in it and shovel it off of our driveways. The whole time we are under the spell of the illusion of snow. What do we see? White, piles and piles of white fluffy snow. The truth is snow is not white, it is composed of billions of snow flakes each one a unique work of art. You can see how these snowflake photographs were taken by going to this site.

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Fractal Illusion

Picture this on your office or dorm wall. I found this on an all poster site. They sell this in a 3'x5' size. I think my brain might seize if I had this in my face all of the time. But you might be more resilient than I.

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Bubblybabs Optical Illusion

I found this on BubblyBabs FractalFairy's personal art album at FE Users Art Gallery.

In this illusion the apparent orifice in the center expands and contracts as
you move your head closer to the image and pull back from the image.

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