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Believe It or Not, This Is an Illusion: The Most Mind-Blowing Thing You’ll See All Day

Nov. 29, 2012 11:23am Liz Klimas

An artist going by “Brusspup” on Facebook and YouTube has released a video so epic it has more than 2.7 million hits within one day of posting.

We can’t even go any further without giving you a glimpse of what the hype is all about in the video. Here are a couple screenshots.

YouTube Video of Anamorphic Illusions Goes Viral With 2.7 Million Hits in One Day

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

Yeah. This is a flat piece of paper. So how is it that the Rubiks cube, well, cube-shaped at one moment and stretched when the page is twisted? It’s called an anamorphic illusion.

Watch Brusspup’s full video to see his other mind-blowing illusions of a roll of tape and a canvas shoe:

Peta Pixel explained that Brusspup “photographed a few random objects resting on a piece of paper (e.g. a Rubiks cube, a roll of tape, and a shoe), skewed them, printed them out as high-resolution prints, and then photographed them at an angle to make the prints look just like the original objects.”

He so kindly provided high-resolution files of these images so you can try it out yourself too. Here are the files for shoe, painter’s tape and Rubiks cube.

In a post earlier this year about anamorphosis, io9 wrote that it originated as a painting technique. The illusion is one that allows the image appear in the appropriate perspective when viewed from one angle — all other angles look distorted. Check out io9′s full article for a more comprehensive read on the technique and its history.

(H/T: Buzzfeed)

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Proverbs17-12NLT
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:49pm
So the truth is revealed on how obama won the election

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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 3:33pm
  Pretty cool. I took the supplied images and made my own with a little enhancement, minus any music:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfCCUd8mFtg
  
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- ComradeAdam
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 6:14pm
  The 3D objects and the 2D pictures are being swapped with some video editting when the camera zooms in. There are several points when the objects in the back go behind the object in the front. Still looks cool.
  
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- RockerRepublican
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 3:38am
  @Iamnotanumber and @ComradeAdam – geezuz peezuz how much it must suck to be you. So fool of doubt and disbelief or dismissive of someone who did something you didn’t think of.
  
  Video editing? Jesus man you can print out the separate files and do the illusion yourself. If anyone can do it, why use video trickery?
  
  I just don’t get some people who can’t even trust their own eyes.
  
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- dogday
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 9:32am
  That’s good!! He’s only a one-dimensional piece of trickery.
  
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- R-Paulson
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:46pm
  “Goldline specifically targets vulnerable consumers with sales tactics designed to pressure those consumers into buying products that would often result in the consumer losing over one-third of his or her investment the instant the purchase is made meaning that, even when the price of the precious metals increases, because these consumers were deceived into purchasing coins with mark-ups exceeding 50 percent, it could be years, if ever, before the consumer recoups, much less makes any profit on, the investment.”
  
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- TheirMom
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 5:28pm
  My thoughts exactly. Funny!
  
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Rowgue
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:47pm
Meh.

It’s been done before and you need to do a multiple layers of manipulation in order to get the desired effect that’s only veiwable through the lense of a camera. Not that impressive.

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- Iamnotanumber
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 2:20pm
  Thank you!!! Those of us who ever took an art class in 7th grade have done very similar types of work….with our HANDS! Don’t get me wrong it is neat but….it’s simply recreating the wheel in a different medium.
  
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- Treaty
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 2:28pm
  What a curmudgeon. Relax a little.
  
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- Rowgue
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 6:44pm
  So saying something doesn’t impress you is equal to being uptight now huh? I didn’t say “Man that sucks what a loser!”. I simply said it wasn’t very impressive after explaining why I wasn’t impressed by it.
  
  Seems like you’re the one making a big deal out of a litlte thing and needs to relax a little.
  
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- see.pee.aye
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 8:50pm
  how many views does your video have? oh wait, none.
  
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- Chuck Stein
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 1:24am
  True, it is nothing new. It has had a fancy art name “trompe l’oeil” — French for “deceive the eye” (I’m sure that Beck knows that in light of his position in the art world) for a long time. No idea why a new name is being cooked up.
  Still — I think it is very neat and I am glad to have seen it.
  
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- aproudinfidel
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 2:11pm
  In my 64 years I have never seen anything like that. Maybe I need to get out more. I thought it was pretty cool.
  
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teddyc73
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:14pm
“…a video so epic…” Epic? Come on The Blaze, is your site written by teenagers?

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- TheePolitinator
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:29pm
  I know right, epic would be waking up to a piece of actual investigative journalism where they uncover corruption coupled with a picture of Pisslousy and Reid being handcuffed and shackled, along with the rest of the elected hack slime.
  
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- bigal8
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:46pm
  Not by teenagers, for teenagers.
  
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- Matt
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 4:17pm
  They have investigative pieces too. Usually they are reserved for major coverage on Beck’s actual show. The Blaze never has quite as interesting content as his show, probably for a good reason.
  
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- burnteye86
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 4:23pm
  I bet you guys are a lot of fun at party’s huh?
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 6:31pm
  It’s free, what are you complaining about? You only lost, maybe 3 minutes of your life.
  
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- see.pee.aye
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 8:52pm
  Anonymous, no more like 5 because they weren’t satisfied by wasting only 3. They had to comment.
  
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- Quiata
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 8:48am
  @SEE.PEE.AYE “THEY had to comment.” (my emphasis) …And you’re just a spectator? Quite a smug one!
  
  @TEDDYC73 Yes, the headlines on this site are ATROCIOUS, and I’m on “their” side! Journalism 101: effective headlines should be accurate, concise, and contain an active verb. These headlines are teasers, meant to pique your interest by puzzling you. I don’t like this “side show” approach, and I wish they’d improve their act.
  
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CEM
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:08pm
Clever, but hardly mind-blowing. It’s been done before.

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- sagrzmnky
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:12pm
  It’s fake at least for the first few seconds of the video. Pause the video at .05 seconds. There is a reflection on the table. How would a piece of paper cause a reflection?
  
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- Threeve_Texas_With_A_Dollar_Sign
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:54pm
  SAGRZMNKY
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:12pm
  “It’s fake at least for the first few seconds of the video. Pause the video at .05 seconds. There is a reflection on the table. How would a piece of paper cause a reflection?”
  
  The reflections were the real items. The artist took photos of the objects first; the objects which were shown in the opening sequence of the video. The article describes the method with “Peta Pixel explained that Brusspup ‘photographed a few random objects resting on a piece of paper (e.g. a Rubiks cube, a roll of tape, and a shoe), skewed them, printed them out as high-resolution prints, and then photographed them at an angle to make the prints look just like the original objects.’”
  
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- GO-FOR-LIBERTY
  Posted on November 30, 2012 at 6:25am
  Yeah lets take another looksee at “that” birth certificate again.
  
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48Straights
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 12:55pm
Wow, more hard hitting news from TheBlaze. A Rubiks cube? Really? With all going on in the world today this is breaking news?

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- Sil in CNY
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:04pm
  I am well aware of what is going on in the world…..and most of it sucks. A little entertainment never hurt anybody. Lighten up………
  
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- Bluzie
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:14pm
  And yet you couldn’t wait to click on the story and “waste your time” posting about it. I guess the “teaser” headline of the story led you to believe it was about Benghazi? If so you couldn’t handle hard hitting news since you get easily duped by pictures of colorful cubes relating to world events.
  
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- 48Straights
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:50pm
  Well at least TheBlaze got the headline right: “THE MOST MIND-BLOWING THING YOU’LL SEE ALL DAY”.
  
  Well if you only read TheBlaze tabloid.
  
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- see.pee.aye
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 8:53pm
  does the phrase ” the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment” ring a bell? Didn’t think so.
  
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- ArmedAndReallyPissed
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 10:15pm
  Boy 48 , your really a whiny little twit. All you do is bitch but you never leave. Why do you stay around if you hate this site so much ? You must enjoy whining.
  
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redsred
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 12:51pm
more proof that anything with tech will amuse and entertain today’s young culture sheep.

how productive……………………..not!

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Iamnotanumber
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 12:25pm
Hmm!?! After the cube is done, it is sitting on the desk by the wall while he does the tape. While doing the shoe both the tape and cube are on the desk by the wall….i am not as yet so inclined to be ….convinced!!!???

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- CaptPK_in_the_Gulf
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 12:50pm
  Convinced of … what?
  
  Did you just watch the video and didn’t read the article? He took photographs of these objects on the desk and used an image editor to “skew” the image before printing them out to create the illusion.
  
  The video is a presentation of one type of anamorphic illusion – not a magic trick!
  
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- Bluzie
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:12pm
  Yes Cap, some people never read articles, they just quickly view videos and then post something moronic in the forum section just the see their words in print. I guess they get a feeling of self importance being ignorant of everything around them.
  
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- Iamnotanumber
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:51pm
  Fine…whatever, but the only objects -not- on the desk when the “illusion(ary) super-duperness is unveiled are the ones being unveiled….don’t really care what anyone else thinks, SO SOOOORRY!!
  Dedeuctive reasoning…Elementary Watson!
  
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- Iamnotanumber
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 2:00pm
  Let me say It would be more impressive if the objects didn’t come and go from the frame of view. With all the editing of video, I believe none of what I see and less than half of what I hear any more.
  
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Hammerdown
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 12:18pm
This one is more explanatory. http://www.boredpanda.com/44-amazing-3d-sidewalk-chalk-artworks-by-julian-beever/

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Hammerdown
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 12:13pm
It’s the same idea used on all those large sidewalk chalk drawings to give them depth of field.
http://www.google.com/search?q=sidewalk+chalk+drawings&hl=en&client=safari&tbo=u&rls=en&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=e5e3UPTKGqKZ0QHFo4GICg&sqi=2&ved=0CCsQsAQ&biw=1568&bih=870

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DZ-015
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 12:00pm
Obama’s budget cuts will be just as illusory; dare we call them anamorphic?

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HollyRye
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 12:00pm
Clever! Of course, the cat was my favorite part….

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Dano.50
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 11:52am
Be it self satisfaction, financial, or just one great looking job application, this is the kind of out of the box thinking that all employers and companies are looking for, and something a dreamer can turn into a rewarding career.

Capitalism rocks.

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Speaking-Monkey
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 11:50am
Like OMG, they still make camera’s that record in 2D?

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Go Glenn
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 11:48am
I wonder………could I use this to make money? Hmmmm

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ImmigrantfromSocialism
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 11:41am
He’ll soon be in government

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mom4times
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 11:38am
truly mind blowing……wow….gave me a headache ; )

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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 11:38am
It’s all a Mirage…..you know….like anyone in Washington actually working or telling the truth.

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silverstacker
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 11:37am
The cat was the most interesting part.

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USPATRIOT101
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 11:37am
Even after reading the title of this article, and going into this with my mind preblown , I still thought it was cool.

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- Cherbear
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:05pm
  USPATRIOT101 I agree with you, geez, we need a break sometimes from all the seriousness. I thought it was pretty clever.
  
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huey6367
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 11:35am
Get a job and quit playing around. How much money does that government give you for these ‘studies’?

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- Bluzie
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 1:19pm
  Get a job. You made your post at 11:35am……how much does Beck pay you to troll his site and post your idiocy?
  
  It’s the people like you that really make this site intolerable for casual conversation and debate.
  
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- Iamnotanumber
  Posted on November 29, 2012 at 2:31pm
  As much as the bed wetters pay you to troll here.
  
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Vickie Dhaene
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 11:34am
Wow.

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Apple Bite
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 11:34am
He didn’t draw that!

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COFemale
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 11:33am
Amazing and time consuming work to get it perfect.

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DoctorRon
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 11:31am
He treats those objects like Obama does the truth.

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hi
Posted on November 29, 2012 at 11:28am
People are so clever.

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