There was a whirlwind of press in May 2007 for the 11-year-old boy whose father claimed he single-handedly shot a giant wild hog in the hilly woods of Alabama.
Read more here. Dubbed the “monster pig”by the hunters, this image shows a breakdown of the technique hunters used to create the now infamous Monster Pig forced perspective photo. To create the optical illusion, the boy was placed far behind the pig, with his arm just in the right position that suggests, in the camera view, that he was leaning on the pig’s body. Distances in-between the positions of the camera-pig, and boy and tree-are shown. All conspire to trick the eye into seeing a pig much larger than it was in real life. The distances were calculated by now-retired New York University physicist Dr. Richard Brandt, who used the known measurements of objects in the scene and perspective geometry.
