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accentuates the depth of the image and accelerates the shifting perspective far more than the brain normally allows. This provides a powerful and often disorienting impression of depth and movement. The illusion is made possible by painting the view in reverse to the relief of the surface, that is, the bits that stick farthest out from the painting are painted with the most distant part of the scene.
244:(above) is three-dimensional, made of two pyramids with their tops cut off protruding towards the viewer: the bases of the pyramids are farthest away (flat against the wall), while the flat tops (shown as the two lighter rectangles in the diagram, right) are those parts which are physically nearest to the viewer but which appear, in the picture, to be in the distance at the end of the buildings.
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Hughes' exhibition with Bel-air Fine Art, 'Illusory Spaces,' ran from
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Hughes' reverspective is the subject of papers on the psychology of perception, by
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Papathomas Thomas V & Bono Lisa. "Experiments with a hollow mask and a reverspective: Top-down influences in the inversion effect for 3-D stimuli,"
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