If you want to convince yourself of the author's 'ingenuity', take a look at White Aries, the clues are there, for those who know the tradition. And for those who do not know that tradition, nary a blip on the radar.
Insertion into a radial diagram (White Aries) is an intentional use of an optical illusion. This was done on purpose like the tricky cosmos. So that question has been answered. There is deceptive intent. But the other question is: *What* is it s/he has done? [Only if we can discover what was done might there be some idea of motivation.]
The combination of pigment and hatching patterns in the representation of an armorial heraldic insignia is a in intentional disguise. And in heraldry such a combination is so wrong that I've never seen a rule against it and never seen an example of it. The investigators are left to make their own decisions. There aren't that many possibilities. Try them all. One of them is a winner. How does that happen without intent?
Then there is the built-in papelonny pun, an intentional structure. But without tradition, without terminology, without a proper image of what this is about, the humor is unavoidably lost.
And there is more. Why is White Aries so well painted? Two reasons: 1) If you want to hide something that needs to be painted, you paint everything with it; 2) If you want something to be seen as white, you can't leave the page unpainted.
The trick involved is like the trick in heraldic canting, or the interpretation of a rebus. It is necessary to know what the item is and the proper traditional terminology. This is the tenuous base that opens the door to progress.
Insertion into a radial diagram (White Aries) is an intentional use of an optical illusion. This was done on purpose like the tricky cosmos. So that question has been answered. There is deceptive intent. But the other question is: *What* is it s/he has done? [Only if we can discover what was done might there be some idea of motivation.]
The combination of pigment and hatching patterns in the representation of an armorial heraldic insignia is a in intentional disguise. And in heraldry such a combination is so wrong that I've never seen a rule against it and never seen an example of it. The investigators are left to make their own decisions. There aren't that many possibilities. Try them all. One of them is a winner. How does that happen without intent?
Then there is the built-in papelonny pun, an intentional structure. But without tradition, without terminology, without a proper image of what this is about, the humor is unavoidably lost.
And there is more. Why is White Aries so well painted? Two reasons: 1) If you want to hide something that needs to be painted, you paint everything with it; 2) If you want something to be seen as white, you can't leave the page unpainted.
The trick involved is like the trick in heraldic canting, or the interpretation of a rebus. It is necessary to know what the item is and the proper traditional terminology. This is the tenuous base that opens the door to progress.