Guys - a friend just informed me about this site which contains photographs of the Anamorphic Art drawn by Julian Beever, an English artist who displays his art on the pavements of Europe. Anamorpic Art or Anamorphosis (I just came to know today) is the act of rendering your art in such a way that it gives them the third dimension when viewed from the correct angle.



Here's the opening paragraph from this site:



You need to check these out right NOW --> seeing is believing. I was nothing short of awestruck by some of those pictures. Visit: Rense.Com

Have fun
m^e

I think I saw this page using Stumble for firefox. These pics are also circulating as emails. I must say the paintings are so amazingly life-like. And all of them have to be painted from the camera angle. The guy sure is very talented.

Yeah. No doubt about that - for some reason he reminds me of Escher (probably because both of these artists have a mathematical basis behind their art), whose sketches not only were completely unique, but have this hidden underlying concept of self-reference & infinitives, which form the basis an integral part of theoretical computing & mathematics. If you guys ever happen to come across this book titled, Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid - don't hesitate.. Just grab it straight from the rack and devour it.

It puts forth mindblowing concepts with examples as to how the works of the mathematician Kurt Godel, the artist M. C. Escher and the reverred musician Bach - all deal with infinity and the concepts of self-reference - which has had far reaching influence on formal logic as well as computing.

Especially worth mentioning: The concept of Arithmoquine.

Actually m^e, I did come across that book. A friend of mine purchased that book and showed it to me. But after doing a full semester course in German Philosophy (and scoring miserably in it) about Emmanuel Kant and Wittgenstein, I was in no mood to read another philosophy book. But since you recommend it so highly, I'll try it out the next time I see it. Unfortunately, the friend who had the book passed out last semester, so I'll have to search for it somewhere else.

I don't know about escher's works of having self-reference & infinitives, but I have quite a few pictures of his paintings. It's amazing how he made such paintings which are completely impossible and yet seem defy reality. These are a couple of my favorites:

http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/ital-bmp/LW268.jpg

http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/recogn-bmp/LW426.jpg

One, I love Julian's work... and secondly... He's from Belgium

I loved this one http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/boat.htm Mainly because of the water ripples and the reflections used. And I can not help but stare in awe and then wonder how the heck he does these things. Maybe I should email him and ask him

I have to say that is one skilled artist. oh i loved to be able to do drawings like that wouldnt you????

I recieved an e-mail of his work quite a while ago. Excellent to say the least. Personally, I prefer the gold.

The books, I have not seen anything of them (I sound like that little green gremlin from Star Wars).

that is a really excellent concept and exellently executed. i wish that had been my idea.

i thought anamorphic meant super widescreen like the cinema becasue you can get anamorphic lens converters for film cameras.