Mass Media

The problem with designing this illusion in real life is that it inherently relies on a false perception of perspective. Neither the human eye nor cameras can properly parallelize their natural perspective projections, so the closest this illusion can be seen in real life is when people use it alongside a forced perspective—in other words, a change in scale that ‘flattens’ a figure. A classical example of the use of forced perspective is how the ancient Greeks built their temples; to make temples look orthogonal and consistent from a distance, they built their temples such that their pillars were inclined and the proportions were somewhat ‘inverted’ from how the eye distorts them, so the temples would look ‘corrected’ from a distance.