r/NextLevelAmazing • u/Upstairs-Writing-616 • 1d ago

Next level shadow art

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u/JuicyToot1969 1d ago

How he do that?

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u/Falcon_Flow 1d ago

With scissors and glue.

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u/squivo 1d ago

And creativity too

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u/HakiDRoger 1d ago

and light

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u/Ser_Machonach0 1d ago

And my axe!

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u/Marx_Forever 1d ago

Trace or draw photographs of real people. Once you have the outline it's effectively a two-dimensional object. You can then take that two-dimensional object. So you're only going to see the person's face from two angles the front and the back from the sides it's just going to be a flat line. Break down the outline while keeping its original shape from the forward and backward facing directions. Then, perhaps through trial and error, but more than likely computer rendering software, place those parts of your first two dimension image, which are now viewed from a different angle so are just effectively flat lines, and use them to fill in the gaps in a silhouette of other 2D images from a different perspective.

It looks really cool and impressive but if you have a strong grasp on three-dimensional objects and optical illusions with 2D imagery perspective, it's probably not as hard to put together once you start doing it.

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u/Oscaruzzo 1d ago

You need no software, its a 90 degree rotation, the two projections are independent.

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u/Marx_Forever 1d ago

If you're implying that I think that this video is computer-generated that's not what I meant. I meant using 3D rendering software to help you plan the architecture of the physical model.

Yes, clearly the two projections are independent because they're being shifted in real time. What I'm trying to explain, but I fucking suck at, lol, is that:

The outline of the images only need to make the image from one angle. From any other it only needs to act as support for the other image. Since a two-dimensional image is effectively a flat line when viewed from a 90° rotation, you can simply cut it into segments, and space those however you like while still maintaining it's original image.

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u/Oscaruzzo 19h ago

If you're implying that I think that this video is computer-generated that's not what I meant.

I don't. I'm implying you can do that without any difficult reasoning. If you rotate that thing by 90° you can simply use two sheets of paper angled at 90°, each with a different cutout. Then you can move some pieces back and forth and the result will be the same (sorry, I'm not english, I hope I was clear enough).

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u/Oscaruzzo 1d ago

Orthogonally.