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Furniture-Based Optical Illusions Revealed--Except One That I Can't Figure Out
Magician Zach King's magical chairs
By Rain Noe - November 1, 2019
Magician Zach King has amassed a series of furniture pieces, some made by established designers and others custom-built, and incorporated them into some trippy optical illusions. I was happy to see that he shows you how each one works--except that last one, which I'm still puzzling out:
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Anyone got any ideas about that last blue one? There's no way he's just balancing, and the camera movement didn't seem to reveal any third leg.
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I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.
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Furniture-Based Optical Illusions Revealed--Except One That I Can't Figure Out
Last one is CGI, it's his claim to fame after all
Look v-e-e-e-r-y carefully at the pavement where the chair eventually sits at 3.38-3.39. See that bit of visual distortion as he sets the chair down? I think it's glass or plastic. Note also how the chair aligns so perfectly with the angle of the sun. I'm guessing this took several takes, like the camera angle on the mirrored base for the legless chair did, in order not to pick up the edge.
My friend made the "Inception Chair" as a senior at RISD Furniture in 2011. She was incorrectly named in the video and the clown: ZACH KING commissioned @giftngrain to recreate the chair, rather than reach out to the original creator. He did not contact her for permission to use the chair (only one that exists is in her possession) and he made up his own name for the chair. COPYING=STEALING. The video has racked over 7 million views and he has eventually put up her website in the video description, but it isn't a justifiable outcome for this situation. Recreating work that is not your own is not okay.
Last one is VFX.
What about the anamorphic chair? That has to be CG