From anamorphoses to new media images
| Prerequirements: | Knowledge of perspective and of digital images |
| Objectives: | To study the retrospective interpretation of past optical problems induced by the new media |
| Description: | The present chapter studies old and new optical tricks in a descriptive chapter, then looks at the interpretations of their similarities |
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ANAMORPHOSES AND NEW MEDIA: A DESCRIPTION |
| Optical tricks have existed in all centuries; they have technical common points. They are also philosophical models of vision and symbolise perception or illusion. | |
- Anamorphoses
An 'anamorphosis' is an optical trick which contains a distorted picture, where an unidentifiable object begins to make sense if viewed obliquely, or reflected in a distorting mirror: anamorphoses as the optics of art
- From ananorphoses to new media
Those who are interested in Renaissance optical tricks are frequently engaged in the new media and have a retrospective view of anamorphosis given by the new media
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COMMON POINTS BETWEEN ANAMORPHOSES AND NEW MEDIA: AN INTERPRETATION |
| The basis of both is mathematical, and both are susceptible of philosophical or semiotic interpretation. | |
- Mathematics and the visual arts
Anamorphoses link mathematics and art
- The new media and the past
The new media have been used to reinterpret past visual effects