Updated animated optical illusion tutorial

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By Matt Mets
Posted 2010/01/11 @ 1:17 pm
Category Art & Design, Craft

If last weeks’ post on animated optical illusions left you scratching your head in confusion, then you might want to check out the scanimation-style tutorial by Paul of dude craft. He noticed some flaws in the previous tutorial, and took it upon himself to correct them.

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9 Responses to Updated animated optical illusion tutorial

Stephen on January 11th, 2010 at 2:22 pm said:

Shouldn’t the spacing of the bars be 1/32″ clear and 5/32″ black, so you have 6 segments total, 1 clear and 5 black that way the pattern repeats every 3/16″, so as you move the screen you see each frame 1 by 1 with the rest hidden:

(0=clear and #=black)

Frame 123456
0#####
#0####
##0###
###0##
####0#
#####0

Stephen.

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- Paul Overton on January 11th, 2010 at 2:42 pm said:
  
  Yes, Stephen is right. If you do it six times the width, you need a seventh frame of animation. If you do six frames, it should be 5 times the width. How I screwed that up is a mystery. My apologies
  
  -Paul
  
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kongorilla on January 11th, 2010 at 9:23 pm said:

Checking the stats, scores of people downloaded the Blender file I linked to in the comments of the original post. Did anyone make anything cool with it? Any questions?

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Victor Compean on March 31st, 2011 at 7:01 am said:

it is posible to put a picture of the drawing so i just have to print it??

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Sergio Maldonado on October 19th, 2011 at 5:58 pm said:

AWSOME!!! THANKS BUDY!! YOU SAVE MY LIFE!!!

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Sergio Maldonado on October 19th, 2011 at 5:59 pm said:

AWSOME!!! THANKS BUDY!!! YOU SAVE MY LIFE!!

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Daniel Holt on April 27th, 2012 at 6:08 am said:

im doing this on Illustrator, ive made my frames using the program, i have made a grid.. i just dont know how to removing the blank spaces from my frames :/ .. need help Like Baddly.. doing a book of these for my Final major project at college :s

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hernan on September 24th, 2012 at 3:14 pm said:

Thank you Paul for sharing this with us. Generosity is a great gift. Let me ask you if you know if there is any source of information about the history of this easy but wonderful technique. Thank you again.

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MIke on February 20th, 2013 at 9:42 am said:

This is a great video! thanks for posting Paul!!!!!

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