One last post about the bridge in Frederick as I found it to be interesting. This portion of the bridge contains a distorted picture (called an anamorphic projection) of a girl. The catch here is that if you look at the picture from the proper angle. (in this case from a window in the adjacent building) it looks normal. By approaching from the opposite side as you can see below, I got close to it.
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1 Gump // Sep 23, 2009 at 11:27 AM
This is weird.
2 Jess // Sep 23, 2009 at 1:56 PM
I looked up anamorphic and found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorph_(film)
That’s… pretty gross.
3 Joanna // Sep 23, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Jeff, this is so cool! It’s liek one of my favorites, like this one, which is just the coolest early renaissance painting ever:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Holbein-ambassadors.jpg
4 Jeff // Sep 26, 2009 at 9:49 PM
I’ve seen that painting in a few books before. It was not at all on my mind when I saw this bridge. Thanks for pointing that out.
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