Masters of Illusion response

"Masters of Illusion" was interesting to view because I have absolutely no idea how film and photography can manipulate the eye to see what they want us to see, however, we may not be seeing what is actually there. One challenge was making a flat picture into a 3D reality. Our visual perception is controlled by those behind the scenes. In order to learn all these illusion tricks, we have to go back to the renaissance and credit the original illusionists.  Italy is full of some of the greatest masterpieces. Brunelleschi demonstrated the principles of perspective. He introduced the vanishing point. This is interesting to me to figure out when this type of scientific art was developed because it is something I am just now started to get down. "The Trinity" painting, is the first painting to achieve true linear perspective. I learned about this painting in Art History. When viewing this painting, the lines are very strong. The perspective is evident and it is visually appealing and real.