Anamorphic Drawing Project Write Up
Definition of Anamorphic:
- marked by or relating to the unequal distortion and/or magnification of an image, squeezing an image into a dimension drastically different from its own
Supplies:
Process:
Using the supplies above, me and my partners projected a small image half the size of printer paper onto a large poster board. We did this by placing the poster on the floor while George sat in a chair with the image on a pane of glass in front of him. Directed by George, Mikayla and I would place crucial points of the image on the poster. Since this method is essentially projecting a tiny image onto a huge image based on George’s perspective, our project looks distorted from any other angle. But if one goes to the exact spot George was sitting when we were drawing our project, the image looks perfectly normal.
Challenges:
Our group had a lot of challenges with this project just because the projection has to be very precise. It was incredibly difficult to pinpoint the exact spot on the poster that coincided with the smaller image, because if George moved his head a centimeter to left, everything would be completely off. On our first attempt, we made this mistake. There are the white out marks on our paper to prove it. However, once we were able to draw all of the most important corners and angles, it was fairly easy to draw the rest of the image. Especially because of the unique challenges it presented, this project made my class as a whole more attentive to detail, and more precise.
- marked by or relating to the unequal distortion and/or magnification of an image, squeezing an image into a dimension drastically different from its own
Supplies:
- picture frame with glass panel
- dry erase markers
- white posterboard
- colored pencils
- sharpies
- cardboard box to support picture frame
- laser pointer
- image of an impossible geometric shape
Process:
Using the supplies above, me and my partners projected a small image half the size of printer paper onto a large poster board. We did this by placing the poster on the floor while George sat in a chair with the image on a pane of glass in front of him. Directed by George, Mikayla and I would place crucial points of the image on the poster. Since this method is essentially projecting a tiny image onto a huge image based on George’s perspective, our project looks distorted from any other angle. But if one goes to the exact spot George was sitting when we were drawing our project, the image looks perfectly normal.
Challenges:
Our group had a lot of challenges with this project just because the projection has to be very precise. It was incredibly difficult to pinpoint the exact spot on the poster that coincided with the smaller image, because if George moved his head a centimeter to left, everything would be completely off. On our first attempt, we made this mistake. There are the white out marks on our paper to prove it. However, once we were able to draw all of the most important corners and angles, it was fairly easy to draw the rest of the image. Especially because of the unique challenges it presented, this project made my class as a whole more attentive to detail, and more precise.
- Risa Holmes - Period 5 - 4/15/14