True Reverse Perspective on Vimeo

An odd effect that I’m not sure what you’ld use it for, JMS has a short video demonstrationg a true “Reverse Perspective” plugin for Maya that he has developed.

Essentially, the positions of the vanishing-point and the focal-point are swapped. So now we are at the vanishing-point, where geometry shrinks to nothingness, and the focal-point lies some distance ahead, beyond which objects scale to infinity.

The effect is achieved entirely in-camera. The scene and models themselves have no unusual scaling, they're laid out in a normal / perpendicular fashion; the way the camera 'sees' the scene is altered to create the effect. Perspective is truly reversed.

via True Reverse Perspective on Vimeo.

True Reverse Perspective from JMS on Vimeo.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .