COMPUTER-AIDED ILLUSIONS - AMBIGUITY, PERSPECTIVE AND MOTION

The use of distorted perspective and an understanding of optics by Ren aissance artists resulted in the creation of unique illusions in their work. Today, the need to translate satellite pictures into a rectilin ear format and to project, record and adapt images to the different as pect ratios of film and video, is causing new algorithms to be written into software. These programs simplify and automate the task of conve rting distorted perspective into a proper linear perspective and the r everse. While investigating the use of these technologies to create ne w illusions in art, I rediscovered unique phenomenona in two different Renaissance paintings.