Op-Art Desktop

Flint • May 10, 2007 10:43 pm
I promise it will make your eyes go funny.
HungLikeJesus • May 11, 2007 10:59 am
Now I see this where ever I look.

It looks like a map to some Mexican village, or a broken wire fence.
Cloud • May 11, 2007 4:57 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 • May 11, 2007 8:06 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 • May 11, 2007 9:38 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 • May 11, 2007 9:51 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 • May 11, 2007 10:06 pm
I see...magnifying parts of it probably eases the pain.
Flint • May 11, 2007 10:26 pm
That last one was made out of this:
Flint • May 12, 2007 12:40 am
This one is kind of hard to look at...
lumberjim • May 12, 2007 3:42 pm
Flint;342656 wrote:
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 • May 14, 2007 11:41 am
Flint;342656 wrote:
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 • May 14, 2007 2:54 pm
party pooper :p

Those are cool. The one in post 9 would be cool as quilt blocks in another color scheme.
Flint • May 14, 2007 4:53 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 • May 14, 2007 5:17 pm
Hey, optical illusion quilts are COOL!!!

Check some out:
xoxoxoBruce • May 22, 2007 3:55 pm
I suppose when they sew them, they're up close enough not to be affected by the pattern.