SH Art Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it Hi, today I will be teaching you guys how to create a simple optical illusion comprised of cubes. The way the optical illusion works is that you will be able to see the cubes in two different ways. Your brain will switch how you see the cubes to going outward, or going inward, similar to this. You can often switch views by blinking a couple times. So, to start, you will need the plugin Hexagonal Grid, which may be found here. ---------------------------------------------------> Step 1: Open up paint.net, the canvas size does not matter. I will use the standard 800x600 canvas size. Open up the Hexagonal Grid plugin (Effects>Render>Hexagonal Grid) and put the following settings: (Anti aliasing is optional.) Your outcome should look something like this: Step 2: Now it is time to make it an actual illusion. This is the hardest part, but it is a pattern, so you can get the hang of things quickly. Select the Paint Bucket: Next, choose a color. You will have to make 3 different shades of this color. I shall use blue. You will have to have a medium, dark, and light shade of the color. (The 'More' section on the color pallet is very helpful for this.) Now we shall start to fill in the cubes to make the illusion.* *This may be hard because the views will switch on you while you are drawing. This part is tricky. This is the pattern: The 'dark' shade of your color shall go on the top of your cubes: That represents the top of the cube on one view of the optical illusion, and the bottom on the other. Next, the 'medium' shade of your color shall go on the left-hand side of your cubes: That represents the left side of the cube in one view, and the right in the other view. Finally, the 'light' shade of your color shall go on the right-hand side of your cubes: That will represent the right side of your cubes in one view, and the left side in the other view. ---------------------------------------------------> And there you have it! A simple optical illusion comprised of cubes to fool your brain! ---------------------------------------------------> If you really want to, you can play around with different shades, colors, and effects to make a really cool illusion like this: Thank you for viewing and/or commenting! Feel free to share your outcomes! Quote <Click for Gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattz1996 Posted November 28, 2010 Share Posted November 28, 2010 Nice tut:) Here's my result: Quote Click my signature to register for the game my signature is based off of If you get to level 5, it helps me too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sokagirl Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Nice , will have to try it soon .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stant Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 (edited) Hi everyone, Sorry for answering an old post. I just made a small tool that generates an optical illusion from a photo. This tool has been made during a night I was bored (Yep, nothing better to do...). <snip> Thanks all, tell me what you think of it ! Edited June 19, 2011 by Ego Eram Reputo Link removed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 I'll tell you what I think: It has nothing to do with this tutorial or paint.net. We call that spam. Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flitchy Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 I couldnt see any pictures, do i need to download something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 4 minutes ago, Flitchy said: I couldnt see any pictures, do i need to download something? @Flitchy this is an old post and the images have been hijacked by Photo Bucket. The tutorial authors, who are still active on this forum, have updated theirs, whereas the author of this tutorial has not logged in since 2012, so it is probably not going to be fixed. Sorry Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eli Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 These are the images that SH Art used to llustrate his tutorial. Step 1: Step 2 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 9 hours ago, Flitchy said: I couldnt see any pictures, do i need to download something? I've rehosted the images supplied by @Eli. Thanks Eli! Thanks to @Woodsy for supplying the PDF, which I've attached. 2 1 Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seerose Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 (edited) @SH Art! Thank you so much for the tut. @Eli! @Woodsy! and @Ego Eram Reputo! Thank you to all. Edited May 4, 2018 by Seerose 5 Quote Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seerose Posted May 5, 2018 Share Posted May 5, 2018 @Eli! @Maximilian! @lynxster4! @ReMake! @LionsDragon! Thank you very much to all. 1 Quote Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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