Well there's nothing really fancy actually. I rendered the image orthographically (the trick requires me to) and rendered it in cycles without compositing.
As you can see in the gif image below, after applying the trick 'physically' to the subject, you just need to position it from the camera perspective carefully. I used sun node and position it carefully so that there are no overlapping shadows or reflections that would give the tricks away. I used the gif image below as a reference to my rendered image, I hope the gif below helps :).
Perfect! Even though it's a well known illusion, this rendering is even more of a mind-bender than usual. I think the fact the dice are 'real' and familiar objects on a 'real' table (rather than a diagram in a book) makes it all the more confusing.
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Please show us how the dice were position/rendered/composited, or however you implemented that penrose.
Well there's nothing really fancy actually. I rendered the image orthographically (the trick requires me to) and rendered it in cycles without compositing.
As you can see in the gif image below, after applying the trick 'physically' to the subject, you just need to position it from the camera perspective carefully. I used sun node and position it carefully so that there are no overlapping shadows or reflections that would give the tricks away. I used the gif image below as a reference to my rendered image, I hope the gif below helps :).
http://www.moillusions.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/03b.gif?2fad8a
Beautiful! Good idea, nice render.
If Escher could return today, much chance that he would be a blender nerd :-)
That is really cool, thanks for uploading the .gif
Perfect! Even though it's a well known illusion, this rendering is even more of a mind-bender than usual. I think the fact the dice are 'real' and familiar objects on a 'real' table (rather than a diagram in a book) makes it all the more confusing.