You know how it is, when boobed people put on a t-shirt with a design. There is warpage. I think there was even a joke about it in that movie "Stand By Me." Well, what if you custom-printed the design to correct for said warpage from an individual wearer, so that the design struck the eye as optically sitting in a straight picture plane? IMPOSSIBLE, you say? Well here's the real magic. You would send out a test t-shirt, that would just be plain white and have a grid printed on it. Then the wearer would take a photo wearing the grid T. Then I'm pretty sure you could make a computer analyze the photo and figure out like which squares of the grid got distorted and how, and adjust the image accordingly before printing it on a shirt of the same size and fit.
Don't tell me the science isn't there, people have been doing this kind of perspective thing since Leonardo, like this famous one with the anamorphic skull that only looks like a skull from way up close and to the right.
Hans Holbein the Younger's "The Ambassadors"
This also gives me some ideas about anamoprhic tattoos that would only look right from certain angles. What angles? Use your imagination.
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IMPOSSIBLE, you say? I say no such thing, I think we need to capitalize on this before Threadless or Woot.com or one of those "clever T-Shirt" sites does.
The tags tell the whole story on this one, except I think "boobs" or maybe "racks" should also be in there (for extra clarity on "anatomy" and also cuz hey, who doesn't love boobs, am I right?).
My captcha word for this post is "chawgma." CHAWGMA!
I always think of tutties when I think of Hans Holbein.
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