The first chair model

Perhaps, Ames is best known for constructing illusions of visual perception, most notably the Ames room and the Ames window. 

The lady face is me, when i chat about Ames chair with my a artist friend who drew this picture for helps me to understand the principle.  

 

 1:See the picture from normal view (angle)

2: See the picture from slope view,the face becomes my real shape... Not so fact like that..

At the beginning I thought the Ames chair was three-dimensional, because the picture is not clear and the explanation somewhat vague but after reflecting I realised it was bi-dimensional. Based on the picture of the Ames chair, I drew some drafts to make model.

I used drinking straws, thread and putty to make the model. It’s like a magic when I finished and check it from bottom view.

My next plan is make more this kind of models for develop Ames idea, more special and interesting.

   

Sunshine in French National Library ~~

In the Paris trip, I visited the Bibliotheque nationale de France(French National Library ）.

It's really wonderful library !! 

The great architecture was exiting. Especially the mini forest 

inside the library itself. With thoughts about misleading visual perception in mind，i noticed an interesting effect of light and shadow in the form of a stright ray of light that appears to cut through the trees, this can only be appreciated from a certain angle, as you move away from this spot the line becomes less perfect.

Oh, Ames chair..

This IS Ames room,

follow the room,my following work is following CHAIR..

 I was stare at the Ames chair picture a loooog time, and many times, it's quite

difficult to understand how it works. I google the odd chair, search it from library..  

Finally, i knew it!! It's a such amazing invention. Simple but impressed.

There are some quotations, which talk about the background of Ames chair.

Link: http://www.bobolinkbooks.com/Ames/ChairDemo2.html

By Roy R. Behrens

                

                        

  

1+1= 1

 The picture is very interesting!

  Stereo vision produces new illusory contours.

  One of the winner from "6th Annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year".

 Design by Davi Geiger & Hiroshi Ishikawa.

  

The perception of the Kanizsa illusory triangle (first row) is strengthened by stereo matching. Does stereo matching use illusory contours as features for matching? Does stereo matching produces new illusory contours?
Stereo vision may not match illusory contours and (new) Illusory contours can be formed after stereo matching occurs (second row).

so,i call it "1+1= 1" lol

I think maybe it is hint something about a new space that could be created by our eyes in this ways?  Coooool ?  I don't know.. let me keep thinking.

Information got from: 
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/cat/top-10-finalists/2009/#post-1064    

Mind Frame

Afterimage Mind Frame' is a visual installation where the audience discovers and recreates images in empty picture frames. Physical, mental, and emotional interaction all come together in this piece.
The work called "Mind Frame" which was made by korea artist Jaewook Shin.

The visitor is invited to hang any of five frames on a wall. In each, they see an abstract moving image composed of white dots. After the array of dots stops moving, an afterimage of a familiar painting is revealed in the otherwise blank frame. 

The moving dots create a more complex afterimage, 'exposing' the eye like a camera to create darker and more vivid areas. The most fascinating part of this phenomenon is that they don't see just the afterimage, but a combination of the afterimage and the original painting from their own memory.

This is rare work so far i found made by afterimage.

The boundary's of science and art are blurring?

It is really coincident !
Before i choose my subject "afterimage" i use Olafur Eliasson's work ---"The weather project" as my favorite architecture in 5 things.
Anyway, the coincidence is when i search informations about afterimage, i found a video which is a short presentation by Olafur Eliasson again. 
His talk is.....a little bit boring but helpful for me.



Olafur Eliasson: Playing with space and light.

An illusion room

The famous space called:  Ames room.
It is created by an American ophthalmologist Adelbert Ames, Jr. (1880–1955), who first constructed such a room in 1946. And his idea was come from a concept by the German physicist Hermann Helmholtz in the late 19th century.An Ames room is depicted in the 1971 film adaptation of the Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Also, production of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy used several Ames room sets in Shire sequences to make the heights of the hobbits correct when standing next to Gandalf.


The Ames room looks cubic when seen with one eye through a specially-positioned peephole.

                                         


However, the room's true shape is trapezoidal. " The floor, ceiling, some walls, and the far windows are trapezoidal surfaces; the floor appears level but is actually at an incline (one of the far corners being much lower than the other); and the walls are slanted outward, though they seem perpendicular to the floor. This mistaken shape makes it look as if people or objects grow or shrink as they move from one corner of the room to another. "

   Definition from Wikipedia.

A video about George Rousse

George Rousse, a French photographer.
His work is could be called anamorphic art, only viewable in its intended focus from one precise viewpoint. It's no business about after image or optical illusion but quite interesting. Maybe i can get some inspirations from him.

Let's have a look~!

analysis

Optical Illusion

< Eyes, lie, illusions > is a great and intriguing book, it arose my interesting for optical illusion,
which relate to such broad areas beyond my anticipation.
Now I understood the reason that Pete always lead me to explore it.

Just at the beginning of the book, i got lots of useful key words,

which quite worth to think about it.

And also, i researched some other data form world book.

I choose four famous pictures about optical illusion.

( Unfortunatly, i don't know why the quality of pixs always be bad when i post on blogger....-.- But i can see it so clear was saved from PS. Maybe is cause the blogger compress it automatic. )

Well..

Recently, i'm reseach two sorts of optical reactions made of after image:

Illusion and delusion (hallucination? i'm not sure how to call it more accurate ),

they are similar but different.

I want to display the delicate difference between illusion and delusion through After Image.

How does influence for a space could be.

It is necessary to research the different intention of Illusion and delusion in existent works,

such as some architectures and installation art.

And also, optical illusion that refers to an image continuing to appear in one's vision after the

exposure to the original image has ceased.

In the spatial restrictive field, what condition should be use corresponding between

Illusion and delusion?

To me, the trend of delusion is erratic, abstract and perceptual, as a dream,

while the Illusion is like a magic, odd outside but rational and well-founded inside.

Five Things

movie

Cremaster 4 by Matthew Barney

Barney's epic Cremaster Cycle, a series of five feature-length films described by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian as "one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema."

It is a project consisting of five feature-length films that explore processes of creation. His concentration in sculpture is accentuated by his use of video.You can watch if you are interested in it :

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7C43AA44E3D40FE8&search_query=CREMASTER+4

Installations Art

Cremaster 1 by Matthew Barney

To be honest, i can't understand well what the meaning of it want to expression. But,anyway,i like it cause if you zoom in thses things, some subtle and interesting changes on the center of it.

Book

Belonging by Jeannie Baker

A new book from Jeannie Baker is also a much anticipated event and this book, Belonging is no exception. This time Jeannie Baker tackles head on the urban environment and what a statement she makes. This book, wordless, tells such an intense story that you will be glued to the pages to discover the changes over time in the incredibly detailed collage pictures.

This book is a joy to read and look through, I loved the little touches like the changing signs and the objects around the window depicting the change of time.

Painting

Wall drawing by Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitthas been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world since 1965. His prolific two and three-dimensional work ranges from wall drawings (over 1200 of which have been executed) to hundreds of works on paper extending to structures in the form of geometric forms, and progressions. These works range in size from gallery-sized installations to monumental outdoor pieces. Sol LeWitt’s frequent use of open, modular structures originates from the cube, a form that influenced the artist’s thinking from the time that he first became an artist. His work transforms these ideas into objects of exquisite beauty and eleqance,deliberately introducing elements of chance and intuition.

Architecture

The weather project by Olafur Eliasson

The subject of the weather has long shaped the content of everyday conversation. The eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson famously remarked ‘It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.’ In The Weather Project, the fourth in the annual Unilever Series of commissions for the Turbine Hall, Olafur Eliasson takes this ubiquitous subject as the basis for exploring ideas about experience, mediation and representation.