Trompe l'oeil back-garden sink-hole
This trompe l'oeil back-garden uses painted lines to make it appear that the tree is disappearing into a sink-hole:DEFORMSCAPE (via JWZ)
Deformscape is an outdoor extension to a private dwelling in San Francisco. Situated in a tightly packed urban neighborhood, this limited space outdoor sculpture garden inherits a large tree, and uses this sole arboreal presence to establish a gravitational pattern of grooves that are focused towards the tree's centroid. This asserts the valued presence of the carbon-absorbing tree and its green canopy overhead, while allowing for a maximum of usable surface area below free of other vegetation. To generate the resultant pattern, a 3-dimensional bulge is formed around the tree, and its distorted wire-grid projected onto a 2-dimensional surface. Taking into account appearance effects created by perspective views from inside, the resultant planar surface appears sink around the tree.
Previously:
- Trompe l'oeil ski-toilet mural - Boing Boing
- Trompe-l'Å“il video projection on building facade - Boing Boing
- Funny trompe l'oeil costumes - Boing Boing
- Porn trompe l'oeil - Boing Boing
- In trompe l'oeil stripper ads, lampposts are strip poles - Boing Boing
- Rooms painted to create 3D trompe l'oeil effects - Boing Boing
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