Op-Art Desktop
 

I promise it will make your eyes go funny.

Now I see this where ever I look.

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

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.

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:

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

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. ...

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

That last one was made out of this:

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

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

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.

party pooper :p

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

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.

Hey, optical illusion quilts are COOL!!!

Check some out:

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