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Anamorphic Mysterious Island

From: Steve Michaluk <smichaluk~at~hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 09:16:03 PST
To: jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il

Are any Hungarian JV Forum members familiar with Orovitz? By
clicking either of the following URLs you may view the artist's
work discussed below.

Steve

http://members.aol.com/webcarlos2/Optical/Artists/Orovitz.htm

              "Jules Verne's Mysterious Island"

This is a painting of Jules Verne's Mysterious Island. A fine
sketch to say the least, yet when a convex mirror is placed at
a certain spot within the painting, a perfect portrait of Jules
Verne is reflected! The angle the mirror is placed towards the
painting, and the way the lines of the painting are reflected
within that mirror, combine to form this amazing artistic feat
of Anamorphic artwork!

     http://illusionworks.com/html/art_of_orovitz.html

Anamorphic art involves distorting an image on a flat plane so
that its reflection on a curved surface (many different types
of curved surfaces have been used) reveals the undistorted
image. Anamorphic images do not necessarily have to be revealed
on mirrors as in the example below. The distorted image is
usually hard to discern.

Anamorphic art has been around since the time of Leonardo Da
Vinci and was quite popular during the 17th and 18th centuries.
It has been traditionally used to hide secret images or political
messages in artistic works.

Hungarian artist Istvan Orovitz is a master at creating a new
form of anamorphic art, which utilizes ambiguous images. In other
words, he is using one illusion to create another illusion, which
produces a rather spectacular result.

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