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Just found this online. It’s a game that took off from the Escher-esque perspective. I think it’s interesting because in the history of gaming/enterntainment, we went from flat 2D (plan or elevation/section) to one or two point perspective (or axo. ie. simcity) to fully immersible perspective spaces (first person shoorters). and now we have manipulation of perspective/axo to create or experience space in an unprecedented way.
a street artist who uses subway posters in nyc to create montages using only a razor.
another artist who folds origami using dollar bills as his medium.
http://fabrikproject.com.mx/blog/?p=4517
This is an interesting hallway interior with the use of anamorphic projections.
This is from one of my recent website discoveries, http://www.oddee.com, a blog on “oddities,” as the name would suggest.
This particular category features some amazing anamorphic street drawings from around the world.
Not sure it posted before, here is the actual link:
Projection spans back to our earliest times, using shadows and celestial objects to assist humans in the depiction and manipulation of our environment. As such, the study of projection is the study of virtual reality. Since cave paintings and, later, celestial alignments of monolithic structures, and, later still, the early science of Ancient Greece, virtual reality–the ability to re-present real-world data graphically–has been a critical element of what made humans elevate beyond our ancestors. Developing spatial reasoning through imagining a top-view, like a map or a plan, required a disembodied eye aided by abstracted and alternate perception; seeing the world as only what can be seen by the eye was limiting. Early humans sought out what I call supravision, a neologism describing vision that sits above and outside normal, everyday vision. It is what philosophers and scientists have used to measure and describe our universe and it is what artists and architects used to plan and depict our world. It applies to disciplines and processes such as perspective, cartography, surveying, stereopsis, anamorphosis, orthography, astronomy, optics, light and shadow, weapons systems, origami, descriptive geometry, medical imagery, photography, cinema and more.
This blog will both find examples of current applications of projection systems, usually in short form, and expound on historical moments that projection was featured as a prominent element of a paradigm, movement, or process. The subtext to this whole endeavor is the current digitization of many, if not all, of our representational processes. Looking at historical references will build a context for understanding our current visual environment.
–Pablo Garcia
Assistant Professor, Lucian and Rita Caste Chair in Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University
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