Anamorphic Perspective
The angle is everything: geometry that only makes sense from the side.
🧐 What do you see?▼
A distorted shape on a floor. It looks stretched and "wrong." But if you imagine viewing this from the extreme bottom edgeof your screen, the distortions cancel out, and the shape looks like a solid cube standing upright.
🧠 Why this works▼
Anamorphosis is a perspective technique that requires the viewer to use a special device or occupy a specific vantage point to reconstitute the image.
When you look at a surface from an angle, the image isforeshortened. By pre-distorting (stretching) the image in the opposite direction, the artist makes the objects look mathematically perfect from your slanted perspective.
🧪 Try variations▼
Adjust the Intensity to extreme levels. This stretches the cube further, simulating a viewing angle of nearly 0 degrees (eye-level with the ground).