“Rendering Op Art lines” by Inglis and Kaplan
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- Rendering Op Art lines
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The 1960’s marked the start of the Op Art movement. Typically, Op artists make use of optical illusions and high contrast to create artworks that “trick the eye”, such as revealing hidden images or inducing a sense of movement. Artist Reginald H. Neal created a piece entitled Square of Two (see Figure 1a) which at first glance is a 2 x 2 tiling of concentric squares that seems to be scintillate as the eye moves across the image. A closer look reveals that the entire image is constructed out of lines arranged in two orthogonal directions, and the boundaries of the concentric squares are actually illusory contours created by the bending of these lines.
