Op-Art Desktop

Flint · 05-10-2007, 09:43 PM

I promise it will make your eyes go funny.

HungLikeJesus · 05-11-2007, 09:59 AM

Now I see this where ever I look.

It looks like a map to some Mexican village, or a broken wire fence.

Cloud · 05-11-2007, 03:57 PM

my mother painted a picture like this once. It was about . . . 4 feet by 6 feet, and in certain lights (or states of mind), the colors would -- strobe.

Flint · 05-11-2007, 07:06 PM

Cool. This type of thing definitely plays better, bigger. I have the red/blue thing set as my desktop (in stretch mode) and it "flashes" a little. I've been playing with MS Paint instead of getting on the internet at work. Accidently made this optical illusion today. There are no curved lines in this image:

bluecuracao · 05-11-2007, 08:38 PM

How do you make these things without passing out in the process? Do you create them in b/w first, and add color last?

Flint · 05-11-2007, 08:51 PM

Generally I start with a 25 by 25 pixel tile, magnified times 8, then ctrl+a, ctrl+c (select all, copy) image, attributes, increase to 50 by 50, ctrl+v, (optional ctrl+r, r to rotate), fill up the new tile, ctrl+a, ctrl+c, ctrl+v times 3, repeat, (decreasing magnification as necesary). More or less. ...

bluecuracao · 05-11-2007, 09:06 PM

I see...magnifying parts of it probably eases the pain.

Flint · 05-11-2007, 09:26 PM

That last one was made out of this:

Flint · 05-11-2007, 11:40 PM

This one is kind of hard to look at...

lumberjim · 05-12-2007, 02:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flint

Cool. This type of thing definitely plays better, bigger. I have the red/blue thing set as my desktop (in stretch mode) and it "flashes" a little. I've been playing with MS Paint instead of getting on the internet at work. Accidently made this optical illusion today. There are no curved lines in this image:

dude. that pattern works like a magic eye pic. it has depth...just nothing there standing off of it. i wonder if you could lay a filled image of something over it slightly out of alignment, and see the depth

glatt · 05-14-2007, 10:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flint

There are no curved lines in this image:

Well, technically speaking, there are no curved lines on any image displayed on a computer monitor. It's all square pixels in straight lines trying to represent a curve. Your image does the same thing.

LabRat · 05-14-2007, 01:54 PM

party pooper :p

Those are cool. The one in post 9 would be cool as quilt blocks in another color scheme.

Flint · 05-14-2007, 03:53 PM

I don't know what's more of a party-pooper: the de-bunking of my optical illusion, or the observation that I'm designing quilts.

LabRat · 05-14-2007, 04:17 PM

Hey, optical illusion quilts are COOL!!!

Check some out:

xoxoxoBruce · 05-22-2007, 02:55 PM

I suppose when they sew them, they're up close enough not to be affected by the pattern.

05-10-2007, 09:43 PM	#1
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Op-Art Desktop I promise it will make your eyes go funny. Attached Images __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

05-11-2007, 09:59 AM	#2
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	Now I see this where ever I look. It looks like a map to some Mexican village, or a broken wire fence. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

05-11-2007, 03:57 PM	#3
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	my mother painted a picture like this once. It was about . . . 4 feet by 6 feet, and in certain lights (or states of mind), the colors would -- strobe. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

05-11-2007, 07:06 PM	#4
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Cool. This type of thing definitely plays better, bigger. I have the red/blue thing set as my desktop (in stretch mode) and it "flashes" a little. I've been playing with MS Paint instead of getting on the internet at work. Accidently made this optical illusion today. There are no curved lines in this image: Attached Images __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

05-11-2007, 08:51 PM	#6
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Generally I start with a 25 by 25 pixel tile, magnified times 8, then ctrl+a, ctrl+c (select all, copy) image, attributes, increase to 50 by 50, ctrl+v, (optional ctrl+r, r to rotate), fill up the new tile, ctrl+a, ctrl+c, ctrl+v times 3, repeat, (decreasing magnification as necesary). More or less. ... __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

05-11-2007, 08:38 PM	#5
bluecuracao in a mood, not cupcake Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 3,034	How do you make these things without passing out in the process? Do you create them in b/w first, and add color last?

05-11-2007, 09:06 PM	#7
bluecuracao in a mood, not cupcake Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 3,034	I see...magnifying parts of it probably eases the pain.

05-11-2007, 09:26 PM	#8
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	That last one was made out of this: Attached Images __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

05-11-2007, 11:40 PM	#9
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	This one is kind of hard to look at... Attached Images __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

05-14-2007, 01:54 PM	#12
LabRat twatfaced two legged bumhole Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,143	party pooper :p Those are cool. The one in post 9 would be cool as quilt blocks in another color scheme. __________________ Strength does not come from how much weight you can lift, or how many miles you can run. It comes from knowing that you set a goal, and rose to the challenge. Strength comes from within.

05-14-2007, 03:53 PM	#13
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	I don't know what's more of a party-pooper: the de-bunking of my optical illusion, or the observation that I'm designing quilts. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

05-14-2007, 04:17 PM	#14
LabRat twatfaced two legged bumhole Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,143	Hey, optical illusion quilts are COOL!!! Check some out: __________________ Strength does not come from how much weight you can lift, or how many miles you can run. It comes from knowing that you set a goal, and rose to the challenge. Strength comes from within.

05-22-2007, 02:55 PM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I suppose when they sew them, they're up close enough not to be affected by the pattern. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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