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Sunday Morning Illusion

Why is this an Illusion? Well, let’s check Da Vinci’s notebook.

Leonardo's diagram

We can clearly see that the above image is an anamorphic projection as viewed from the d-point. When viewed from another angle, it looks like this.

For those that can’t understand why I brought Da Vinci into this, check out an old post.

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