Anamorphic Images

**Egg Bramhill** · 04 August 2018, 03:23 PM

Gary recently posted a link on Facebook to Anamorphic Images. It got my interest so I thought I'd have a go at creating one in Xara. Here is the result:

**gwpriester** · 04 August 2018, 04:50 PM

We need some more views to see the distortion. The Flemish artists and others I am sure had discovered this technique. This image by Hans Holbein for example has a diagonal shape that when viewed from the right angle is a skull

**handrawn** · 04 August 2018, 08:08 PM

salvador dali anyone...

**gwpriester** · 04 August 2018, 10:16 PM

Dali is surrealism, Steve. A totally different genre though I would not be surprised if he did a few of these.

**Egg Bramhill** · 05 August 2018, 12:18 AM

An on going experiment Gary. The original photo can be all important. Haven't found a really great one yet. The elongated image is the one that's printed then laid on a worktop and photoed from a low angle.

**gwpriester** · 05 August 2018, 12:47 AM

Thumbs up (since this is not Facebook)

**handrawn** · 05 August 2018, 02:00 AM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

Dali is surrealism, Steve. A totally different genre though I would not be surprised if he did a few of these.

Surrealism is a genre Gary - Anamorphic is a technique - or so they told me at art school all those years ago...

some [random] links for you :

https://artsology.com/salvador-dali-anamorphic-art.php

https://www.moillusions.com/dalis-anamorphic-artworks/

myself I'm rather fond of the snappily entitled: Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea which at Twenty Meters Becomes the Portrait of Abraham Lincoln [which I got to see in a gallery at Bruges, mind you twenty paces, let alone metres, back was an issue because people kept getting in the way as people do

] - but is that anamorphic in the true sense... leave that up to you - if you want a breakdown of that technique here it is: http://www.scottmcd.net/artanalysis/?p=1131

I don't know a lot about Photography [or even Graphic Design] but I know a bit about Art

**Egg Bramhill** · 05 August 2018, 03:26 AM

Nearly there. Could have used a better image for the top of the cube....

**DanFelix** · 09 August 2018, 01:32 AM

Hmm. I don't see a skull. I see a compressed image of possibly 2 women. With today's graphic distortion features, cannot such an image be "unfolded" to better display it's original?