I like it. 

This is an optical illusion, most c&c is based on 'realism', so I doubt you're going to get a lot of c&c.

Is it going to be animated once finished?

Yes, the inspiration is Escher, but all my angles are equal where his were slightly different. As soon as I lay out the basic design, I will brick out the walls and have them 'step' down all the way to the top, making the illusion even stronger. But right now all the angles and depths/widths are all flotsam and jetsam, no real rhyme or reason to them. Will be tweaking tomorrow.

~ JJ

Update!

Okay, so I removed the pillars because I realized they were a part of the illusion, but not as important as the aqueduct itself and the 'step-down' look to it. It needs to look perfectly normal if you cover up the left hand side of it.

Anyways here's the update:

Yeah I see the illusion but the water texture bothers me.  It's so common that people do this and I don't really get it - the way it looks now, you get the feeling that a water is a solid sheet of blue with random horizontal (!) parts sparking.

I looked up waterfalls on google and it supports my logic - the lighter striped should indeed be vertical.


This one sort of looks like what you've got there, except the dark part isn't the blue water  - it's the rough rocks that the water is falling on.

Since there's no rough rocks underneath YOUR water,  I think you should consider the smoother vertical stripes instead

Thanks for the references. The waterfall texture that's there now is just a placeholder. I didn't put nuch effort into it yet. Just looked better than solid blue.

I was planning pillar placement and realized I need some more space on the edges. So I widened it a bit and added some 'flow' effects where the steps are, like lollige pointed out.



I think I will work on some pillars next.

~ MC

Great Idea, Though I think that you should give it a more waterfall feel rather than straight lines.

awesome, love the optical illusion idea...you should add more little currents to the other water movements also. Great work

But taking into account JJ Maxx's design in whole, we see that his approach is more aesthetically pleasing and makes more sense at first glance than Kfu's edit.

Edited by Monkey 'o Doom - 13 December 2007 at 3:59pm

heh I agree, it doesn't have to be exactly to the man's specifications.    It does look cooler this way imo - it helps the illusion.  

I hope now you will understand where your water must fail

If you want it to look like the masters:

Look at the shape, compared to his, you have 2 extra corners. It makes it look good, but i can change the position of the waterfall and where it lands.

I say do what you want - if you just pixelize escher's piece to the last detail that'd be dull and just.. whatever.    

Though I agree - with the bend in the top of the waterfall you should bend the bottom as well.  I think acher's edit looks cool :D

I ask, could i do a different part of the image?