Geodesic
Between Memory and Innovation: Algorithmic Analysis of Some Catoptric Anamorphoses by Jean Francois Niceron
Journal for geometry and graphics, Tome 21 (2017) no. 2, pp. 225-239.

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Descriptive Geometry forms the foundation of the science of representation, and has supported designers, engineers, architects and artists throughout the centuries. Its understanding has provided the basis to control three-dimensional shapes in space and their reproduction through recognizable bi-dimensional images. In this paper an extreme case of representation will be discussed, the intriguing and infallible technique of Anamorphosis. This is a form of representation that takes advantage of linear perspective in order to achieve a distorted and disrupted image, or three-dimensional configuration, which appears as a regular form only when it is observed from a specific point in space, or with the aid of mediating devices, displaying a figure which was previously unrecognizable. Known empirically from the beginning of the sixteenth century, Jean Francois Nic�ron was the catalyst of this topic. The most challenging aim of the underlying research is the identification of an algorithmic digital system able to automatically generate this type of representation.
Classification : 51N05, 68U07, 01A45
Mots-clés : Anamorphosis, catoptric, computational design, Descriptive Geometry, illusionary perspective, algorithm 
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S. Mazzalai . Between Memory and Innovation: Algorithmic Analysis of Some Catoptric Anamorphoses by Jean Francois Niceron. Journal for geometry and graphics, Tome 21 (2017) no. 2, pp. 225-239. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/JGG_2017_21_2_JGG_2017_21_2_a7/