Here is a new animation in our series of animated illusion cartoons, Waiting for Shining Person. (As with our earlier cartoons, It may run jerkily on first run-through. It should be fine thereafter.)
Compression for Flash has slightly reduced the effect. If possible, view Waiting for Shining Person as a Quicktime Movie
Woops, slight technical glitch with the original post of this, just before Christmas. So this is a re-posting of the third of our animated illusion cartoons, Chicken and Leaf. It may still run jerkily on first run through, should be OK second time around.
This cartoon ends with a special effect – a tessellation that transforms in space and in time. Tessellation (or tiling) wizard M.C.Escher was brilliant at these transforming patterns, as in his Metamorphosis prints. I’m sure he’d have done animations of those if he could, but without a computer they’d have taken years. In my animation there are two sequences of transformations, first where the pattern morphs in sync all over the screen – a number of people have done those – and then the one that morphs across the image as well as in time. I’m not aware anyone else has done one of those. Please let me know if so, I’d love to see it – and otherwise, I hope if you’re an animator you’ll be provoked into doing a better one than mine.