Wednesday, March 2, 2011

How To Use Optical Illusions In Farmville To Create A Pretty Farm

By Jeff Farmer


Looking around your farm, you see tons of crops and plenty of trees and animals. You also have about million coins saved up. In short, your Farmville experience has been very fulfilling, and now you're way up there in level, which may lead you to wonder: Now what?

Try livening up your farm with decorations! There are a wide range of possibilities in Farmville's market with which to do so.

The price of decorations isn't the same across the board. For example, a mansion costs five million coins, and a regular ol' hale bay costs 100 coins. However, that high mansion cost might not be such a problem for you, considering that you're probably already at a high level.

Decorations offer a certain of experience for purchasing them, but nothing more than that. They don't produce anything that you can sell, so there's no revenue from them.

Basically, then, decorations are only for aesthetic purposes. But if you've already put so much hard work into getting to that high level, you deserve to brag about it a little bit.

Decorations allow you to make a really awesome-looking farm. Not only that, but once you get them (and lots of them), you can start doing some really fun things.

One of the most fun things that decorations allow you to do is to take your farm from a two-dimensional look to a three-dimensional look. To achieve this effect, all you have to do is be very careful and creative in your placement of them.

One Farmville player created an illusion that made it appear as if the Eiffel Tower was sitting atop a large black wall. However, upon closer inspection, the black wall revealed itself to be black fences placed in angled rows.

The secret to using decorations to build 3-D optical illusions is simple: Don't put them in straight rows. Your brain anticipates a certain pattern, and straight rows will play into that, negating any chance of an illusion. Placing your decorations in irregular patterns instead may end up tricking your eyes and make your brain think it's seeing something else.

The procedure for making a 3-D farm isn't really a walk in the park, but it can be done. The first step is to set 20 black fences down in a row, making sure the end of one meets the beginning of the other. When you place the next row on top of it, the most important thing to do is make sure that they don't line up perfectly. This is one of the keys to creating the illusion. Keep doing this same thing for the next rows, too.

The next thing that you have to do is work on the columns in your fences. After laying down a number of rows, you'll naturally have columns, which are a crucial part of the 3-D effect. To ensure that they contribute to the 3-D effect, rather than detract from it, you have to vary their height. To do this, make sure that each column is one less fence in height than the one after it. The exception is the last five columns -- you'll want to make sure that they're all equal in height.

Upon completion of the fence wall, your next order of business is creating a sense of depth. It's pretty simple, actually. On the top of each column, count three plots and then plow them, and when you're finished with that, place trees along the edge of the plots. A look of depth should result from this.

Your farm should take on a three-dimensional look if you practice the advice in this article. And if you keep doing it, you might be surprised by the results! Have fun!




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