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30 January 2006

Optical illusion rooms. 3D painted rooms that reveal hidden shapes when you stand in the right place.

post by: iconomy at: 10:32 | 19 comments

Totally suite.

posted by sciurus 30 January | 10:41

Amazing!

posted by jrossi4r 30 January | 10:44

Some of those don't look real at all.

posted by Hugh Janus 30 January | 10:58

I found another link, which has much better quality photos. I've been trying to find out where these photos came from, but no luck.

posted by iconomy 30 January | 11:07

Awesome!

posted by agropyron 30 January | 11:10

Those are really, really cool.

posted by sisterhavana 30 January | 11:18

Holy pop-ups ico.

Cool pics though. That X across the room is wicked.

posted by richat 30 January | 11:20

Unfortunately, the second link is blocked by my overseers. Better pictures would probably show that it's obviously real.

They're amazing, if it isn't a photoshop job. Thanks, iconomy.

posted by Hugh Janus 30 January | 11:27

Pretty damn cool. How's it done? With a projector?

Reminds me of the Channel 4 idents.

posted by flopsy 30 January | 11:30

I figured a projector too, flopsy.

Ooops sorry richat! I don't get any popups with Firefox so I didn't realize there were any there. Many apologies...I hate it when that happens.

posted by iconomy 30 January | 11:35

I'm afraid those things break my brain. I think I'd wig out if I were walking down the hallway and one of those appeared. Ugh.

posted by Five Fresh Fish 30 January | 11:54

Very, very cool.

posted by me3dia 30 January | 12:14

That unicorn was pretty cool, but the lady liberty one was just plain hokie.

posted by Hellbient 30 January | 12:48

Wow! Coolness!

posted by ooga_booga 30 January | 14:19

I wish all offices/rooms/suites had some sort of effect like this - I mean, we all kind of feel that way anyway, why not just architecturalize it?

posted by Lipstick Thespian 30 January | 14:53

It's kind of like that sidewalk artist. His type of stuff would be pretty cool painted all over the place willy-nilly.

posted by kmellis 30 January | 15:49

Can you imagine competing sidewalk artists trying to use the same shadows but starting at different times? Turf war!

posted by Hugh Janus 30 January | 16:22

cool!

posted by dhruva 30 January | 22:31

Most excellent!

posted by dg 30 January | 22:37

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