Something different -3D street art

[candlefish]

Street artist/illusionist Julian Beever creates unique artwork on city sidewalks. He uses a complex geometric arrangement resulting in images looking amazingly realistic and 3D, but only if viewed from one particular side of the drawing. Oddly, from any other vantage point the drawing looks deformed.

Check out the section titled “Anamorphic illusions drawn in a special distortion in order to create an impression of 3 dimensions when seen from one particular viewpoint” and enlarge the thumbnails at http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm

[unleash]

i think i've seen one of his works once...
it was a woman swimming in an pool, and if you looked from the right side the woman came to life(it becam 3d) but if you looked from aqn other side the legs where too long and to short, and the head was deformed....
could it be?

[Jacorre]

I have seen these before as well, not in real life, but pictures of them on the internet. They are amazing from what I see. I wonder how long it takes to do one. I'd like to see people's expressions when they first seem them too!

[gingerbloke]

Yeah his work is stunning. I have seen many of his 3D woks on line but I'd love to see one actually out in the street. It's his understanding of how to draw water that gets me...especially knowing that he's got to distort it so it looks right from a certain perspective. Mental stuff.

[c3400]

This is really amazing. How can you possibly do a work like this? I mean, from the viewpoint you are at when working, this whole thing must look weird. You have to like, go from the right viewpoint to the working viewpoint each and every second. Or do you do it with a lot of people to help you, or with the help of a computer, or..? Well I'm almost lost for words.

[unleash]

it's just one men...
he is just good in what he do, and it looks very weird to me too to make a picture this way but he had some practise

[c3400]

Wow. I really like this. And boy are you right, unleash! He is good at what he's doing.