Tag: art

When you look at it head on, it says “POW!”. When you look at it from the sides, it says “WHAM!”. Simple but effective. Not sure where this piece originated from; our faculty sponsor, Professor Balsamo, just brought it in one day as an interesting art piece. 

Images like these are an example of Lenticular printing, which involves the interlacing of two or more images where each image has its light refracted in a different direction, resulting in the illusion of the image “changing” as you view it from different angles. I was not able to quickly find any particularly interesting articles, but the Wikipedia page for Lenticular printing is still a pretty good read if you are interested in how it works. This type of printing is also responsible for the “3D” props you sometimes see at illusionist exhibitions or for movie advertisements at the theatre, where they’ve interlaced many images to achieve the effect of the image “moving” as you view it from different angles. Our POW! WHAM! sign has only two different images interlaced, but there is a lot you can do with this kind of technique. 😊