In article <3b471b43@news.povray.org>, Warp says...
> 
>   The most obvious trick in the image is, of course, the triangle itself
> (one of the cubes is clipped by a plane so that the cube right behind it
> shows up; also some of the cubes have a no_shadow applied to them in order
> to avoid annoying and even revealing shadows).
> 
>   The other trick is, however, more difficult to see, and it's the apparent
> perspective of the image.
>   The camera is orthographic, so the perspective is fake.
>   The pattern on the floor is not a gradient pattern, as it may seem, but
> actually a radial pattern. The other cubes in the image are rotated so that
> the look like they were "distorted" by the perspective althought they aren't.
> The cube on the right is actually the intersection of two superellipsoids.
> 
I was looking for a sign on one of the shadowless cubes where there 
would be a break: stupid not to have thought of clipping... 

Cleverly done, though :)
-- 
Regards,  Sander

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