Anamorphosis
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Anamorphosis is a distorted projection that requires the viewer to occupy a specific vantage point, use special devices, or both to view a recognizable image. It is used in painting, photography, scul
Example of mirror anamorphosis
Two anamorphic drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, 1515
Holbein's The Ambassadors with a memento mori anamorph skull in the foreground, 1533
Viewed from the correct oblique angle, the diagonal in The Ambassadors transforms into an undistorted memento mori.
Necker cube
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The Necker cube is an optical illusion that was first published as a rhomboid in 1832 by Swiss crystallographer Louis Albert Necker. It is a simple, wire-frame, two-dimensional drawing of a translucen
Anamorphosis
…works were popularized by the artist M. C. Escher and the mathematician Roger Penrose. Although referred to as "impossible objects", such objects as the Necker cube and the Penrose triangle can be sculpted in 3-D by using anamorphic illusion. When viewed at a certain angle, such sculptures appear as the so-called…
Ancient Roman mosaic