Motion w/o Movement? Escher Animated
Created on: September 12th, 2006
Animated M.C. Escher drawing - it appears that the hands move without moving.
Image source: http://www.mema.ucl.ac.be/~rolinsky/graphics/drawinghands_en.html
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I'll explain further - first of all, there is no actual "movement" in animation - it's all just still frames that give illusion of "movement." That's part of the artistic statement that's lost on some folks.
Next, even in conventional animation terms, this image is NOT moving. It's a trick of virtual "light."
If you look at the link in the description, you'll see it explained thus by the creator:
"This animated gif was made with the method developed by William T. Freeman, Edward H. Adelson, and David J. Heeger at the Media Laboratory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and published in Volume 25, of SIGGRAPH '91 Conference Proceedings. It uses "a quadrature pair of oriented filters to vary the local phase, giving the sensation of motion". I tested this method, by writing a C++ program to apply filters to an image in such a way that it's upper left part (above the diagoval) appears to move right and upward, and lower right part appears to move in the opposite direction, which is just right for the picture of M. C. Escher "Drawing Hands":"
cooke - I gave you a 5 and a 4 on two of your Walken sites, even after you 1'd this. I also gave you a couple 2's and a couple 3's.
I was just checking over your stuff - not avenging. I thought you were downvoting my site for no good reason, yes, but that's your right.
I try to be fair, and I am aware that votes are documented. I tend to vote high or low (especially on things I think are under-rated or over-rated) and ignore stuff I think is just mediocre, and my average vote is still 2.32 - almost dead in the middle. I'll stand by that.
They aren't moving, they are just inversing colors, if you don't believe that put your mouse over something and watch it not move. The diagonal line divides the painting's colors, inverted on top, regular on bottom. Then the colors reverse. This gives a perception of motion, but like Escher's works, thats just an Illusion
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