Gallery: The World's Biggest Lenticular Print Will Make You Go 'Whoa'
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Studio Roosegaarde created a nearly 400-foot lenticular print for Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport's departures hall.
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The print is meant to evoke the skies found in the Dutch masters' paintings from centuries ago.
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As you walk by the mural, it will appear to move and shift shape.
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The 4-inch thick mural has the illusion of miles of depth.
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The trick is adding lenticules, thin, cylindrical lenses that magnify the illustration underneath.
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LED lights are are hidden behind the mural and shine through the polycarbonate to enhance the 160 billion pixels that comprise the mural.
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The mural leading up to the departures gate.
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