If you are a sports fan, you noticed by now that on the sides of a football field, for instance, commercials for one product or another are drawn is such a way that they give the illusion of depth and volume.
Such an image, only that on the pavement, was chosen by the Vancouver authorities, who decorated the 22nd Street in the city, near the Ecole Pauline Johnson Elementary School with a 3D image of a girl running amok after a ball or something.
The effect of the image for the eyes of the motorists are supposed to be immediate. All of them will be forced to reduce the speed of their car, as the illusion is not distinguishable as an illusion from afar.
According to Brent Dozzi, the city's manager of roads and transportation, the image will be visible from a distance which would allow the drivers to brake comfortably and in due time, and will only reveal itself as what it is when the driver approaches.
‘We need to expect the unexpected because anything could happen, whether it is a 3D image on the road ... or whether it’s a live child or a dog running in front of the car, these are all things that we have to be able to control for in a vehicle,” David Dunne from the BCAA Traffic Safety Foundation was quoted as saying by theglobeandmail.com.
“You’ll see this image start to rise off the pavement and it will look like a little child is crossing the street. As you get closer to the image, the image recedes into the pavement,” he added.
The image cost the authorities $14,000 to run and will be in place for the next week. Unfortunately, the manner in which the technology behind the image works has not been detailed.
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