![]() By removing that black line, it gives the impression that the white portion of the box is frosted glass, or something similar.Īlso – sometimes people struggle with seeing optical illusions. In the image below, you can see where that black line was replaced with a white line. The black outline of the box used to be completely hooked in (seen in the image above), but I decided to remove a portion of it and hook it in with white wool instead, to help people see the illusion of the 3-D box better. Is there anything else you’d like to comment on about this project? Normally I like to use a wide variety of values, so this is as narrow as I can get. There are only three values in the whole rug. That further helps the viewer see the optical illusion. The green I chose also has the same value as the grey used in the box. I wanted a color that was serene and easy on the eyes. I wanted the colors to be as simple as possible, and to really guide the viewer towards the image I hope they’ll see. The outside walls of the box are white, the inside walls are grey, and the intersections are black. How did you approach color planning for this project? I ultimately decided that what I wanted was something simple that I could draw, that gave me the right eye perspective of a box and the left eye perspective of a box, so that when I crossed my eyes and looked at the space between the two I could see the 3-D image of a complete box. To create a stereogram, you need an image of the right eye perspective and an image of the left eye perspective of an object, to mimic what your eyes see in real life. If you look at an object with just your right eye and then very quickly with your left eye you’ll see that they’re a little bit different perspective. With no opportunities to travel to hook-ins and schools, there seemed to be plenty of time to experiment. I’ve often wondered if I could hook an optical illusion, and specifically a stereogram, as a rug, and during the early months of the pandemic, I became very interested in this idea, and committed to trying to create a pattern and completing it with this goal in mind. This interest in the play between 2-D and 3-D naturally extended to optical illusions as well. I would rotate the models and look through them to use in my research. I’ve been interested in this phenomenon since early in my career, when I would view 3-D models of chemical structures on my 2-D computer screen. I’ve always enjoyed seeing something as 3-D from 2-D images. The name is a play on Pandora’s Box, and as people might be able to guess, I came up with it this spring during the early months of the pandemic. Read on below to see images of the completed rug and to read about how Ania hooked it: in recent weeks, it feels like a good time to feature this rug as this month’s rug of the month. With the renewed urgency around COVID-19 cases in the U.S. As you will read below, this rug has a long history, in my mind, but the execution, in the spring, was largely due to closures in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this year, Ania designed and hooked a project called “Pandemic’s Box.” The rug’s dimensions are 8″ x 14.5″, and it was hooked in a #3 strips.
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