The artist is Felice Varini. Many more samples on his web site.
of course I have; the images I’m saying would be difficult to fake are not the ones where you see the various coloured parts apparently assembled into a coherent whole; I’m talking about the ones where you see it at the wrong angle and it’s all broken up; mapping a plausible set of shapes onto all those surfaces in photoshop would be just as difficult as constructing the illusion in real life.
If someone identifies the supposed location of these works, visits them and tells you they are real, will you believe that?
Maybe he’s referring to this thread.
And I don’t really see the point of creating such an image in Photoshop. It should be very simple to do in real life.
A google search on 3D Painted Rooms brings up lots of results including better versions of these same photos with less jaggies and all-round better detail. I have not yet tracked down the source of the images, but I have some art and gallery contacts I can quiz on it.
The artist is Felice Varini. Many more samples on his web site.
Thanks!
Wow, sure got quiet in here all of a sudden. I hope people aren’t having their comments Photoshopped out.
This particular Wenner work: http://www.kurtwenner.com/public/p-art06.htm is located at Tokyo DisneySea, as one of the rooms in an attraction.
You talking about me? I’m not on 24-hours a day, you know.
It seems I may have been wrong. However, I think the images in the OP have been enhanced for the reasons I mentioned. Take this example from Varini’s site. Notice how the the colors vary by the surface. This is much more realistic than the far too consistent colors in the OP links.
This image is on both. The original is much easier to believe.
I could agree with that (in fact I already did, in post #16).
That is easy to explain when the photographs are made possibly by different photographers or with different lighting. And with these images, perspective is everything! What may seem perfect from one spot may show its imperfections immediately if you step even inches away. The illusion of two demensions reproduced in three demensions doesn’t work for very long when you continue to change your 3_D perspective. That’s why the photos look different.
The man is an internationally known artist. His works don’t have to be “enhanced.” They do have to be photographed carefully for the full effect. No two shots will be exactly the same.
When I worked at 3DO (now defunct) there was a game I tested called Warriors of Might and Magic that used this sort of illusion in one of the dungeons. The image used was a complex mural, but the presentation was simpler - instead of being painted all over a bunch of irregular surfaces, it was instead done on a series of flat arches down a hallway, so that when you stood at one end it appeared as a wall with a mural. I wonder if the artist who did that was a fan of Varini.
I wouldn’t recommend trying too hard to find the game, though. It was OK, but fairly generic and rather buggy. In fact, I found a serious bug on the day they laid me off along with a bunch of other testers. Rather than fixing it, they tried to pass it off as intentional. (This sort of thing is why they’re now defunct.)