Andreas Aronsson's Impossible Figures Optical Illusion

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Pictures on December 31, 2008 at 2:09 am


Andreas Aronsson is a professional IT technician by day and an awesome optical illusion artist at night: he made a series of cleverly drawn "impossible figures" that at a glance look perfectly fine, but upon closer inspection will give your mind some sort of a Twilight Zone moment.

These are awesome, trust me: Link


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7 comments to "Andreas Aronsson's Impossible Figures Optical Illusion"

  1. Paul in Boca
    December 31st, 2008 at 8:22 am

    mc escher rip off

  2. Gail Pink
    December 31st, 2008 at 9:53 am

    Very MC Escher-esque!

  3. Brandon T
    December 31st, 2008 at 2:42 pm

    That would be a sweet level for Echochrome

  4. Ben Eshbach
    December 31st, 2008 at 6:51 pm

    Does anyone know where to get that cool perspective-ready graph paper?

  5. liphttam1
    January 1st, 2009 at 1:56 am

    Theres at least four "whoh zones" in each of the pictures.

  6. BOLL
    January 1st, 2009 at 10:45 am

    Paul in Boca: Actually it would make much more sense to call me an Oscar Reutersvärd ripoff!
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Reutersv%C3%A4rd)

    Brandon T: These are _very_ hard to rotate as they are created in three point perspective, with the distortion it brings, in contrast to Echochrome which has levels displayed in parallel projection specifically to avoid that distortion.
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_projection_distortion)

    Ben Eshbach: The perspective grid in the background actually differs for each piece. It is created after the figure is finished from the used perspective points and is not a premade graph paper used in the actual creation process. Dick Termes includes a number of perspective grids in his Book On Perspective Drawing, but you have to buy it for $10.
    (http://www.termespheres.com/perspective.html)

    Thank you Neatorama for posting my blog, and thanks for the comments! :D

  7. Ben Eshbach
    January 11th, 2009 at 6:11 pm

    Boll - Thank you for that info. I suspected that was the case when I took a closer look. It appeared that if it was premade then it would really limit the orientation (viewer's perspective) of anything drawn on it. Very impressive stuff!


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