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    Art and Science of Illusion

Perspective

PerspectiveHelper - Processing sketch that aids in the finding of vanishing points and in making drawings using 1-, 2-, or 3-point perspective.
Perspective for Comic Book Artists by David Chelsea (download)
Techniques of the Observer: Vision and Technology from the Camera Obscura to OpenGL (lecture notes)
Techniques of the Observer by Jonathan Crary
<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/17073934" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> Body Dysmorphic Disorder from flight404 on Vimeo.
Paulo Soleri, arcologies:

Chris Foss:

<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/48425421" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> Kubrick // One-Point Perspective from kogonada on Vimeo.
Camera Lucida

NeoLucida
Pablo Garcia's camera lucida drawings
Tim's Vermeer
David Hockney explaining perspective
Day on the Grand Canal with The Emperor of China or Surface is Illusion but so is depth
Persistence of Vision Toys

Richard Blazer Thaumatrope collection (also many other Victorian optical toys)
Modern Zoetropes (Pixar physical zoetrope and record label praxinoscope)
Laura Hayes and John Howard Wileman Exhibit of Optical Toys
Gregory Barsamian's 3D zoetropes
Origins of American Animation (Library of Congress)
The Enchanted Drawing - Edison
Parkour flipbook animation
Krišs Salmanis "The Moment Will Come", graffiti animation
Dodo Bird thaumatrope
Eric Dyer, Zoetrope Tunnel
Physical GIF
Bees and Bombs
Gifmaker.me
Processing GIF library
mrdiv
zolloc
gifpop (lenticular prints of gifs, great collection of gif artists)
Stereographs

V&A blog post on stereographs
Bringing the Exotic into the Parlor: Travel Stereographs in the Victorian Home
NYPL Stereogranimator
Oculus Rift
LiveViewRift (sofrware for viewing stereo pairs on the Rift)
Make a fluid prism stereo viewer from a cd case
Cardboard mailable stereograph viewer
(GIF Pop! Lenticular prints
Google Cardboard 3D viewer
Anamorphic Illusions and Forced Perspective

anamorphic_setup.psd
anamorphic illusion videos (includes links to high-res anamorphic samples)
Forced Perspective in Lord of the Rings
Forced perspective at Disney Land
Forced perspective miniature car photography by Michael Paul Smith:


Anamorphic skull in The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein, The Younger:

3D Scanning

Depth image:

Realtime 3D scanning using structured light
Structured Light 3D scanning
Meshlab
Depth from Stereo with OpenCV for Processing:

SIFT features:

Dancing the Flip-Flop by Robin Sloan
Computer Vision

More Pixels Law lecture notes
OpenCV for Processing
OpenCV for Processing docs
OpenCV for Processing book
class examples
Visual Effects

Going to the Store
Panic Room opening credits
The Kid Stays in the Picture effect (still photos into aniation)
An optical printer:

Blue screen from Return of the Jedi:

Metropolis miniatures:

Metropolis city sequence
Wizard of Oz matte paintings:

Star Wars matte paintings:

Cloud tank effect
Doug Trumbull cloud tank tutorial
John Dykstra motion control camera
Dykstraflex:

Jurassic Park VFX breakdown
Jurassic Park animatronics
crowd getting knocked over by bar
before vfx

Avatar behind the scenes
After Effects camera tracking tutorial