The Xara Trompe L'Oeil Room Page 13
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Advanced Tutorial This tutorial builds upon the techniques covered in the new user tutorial. Because of the space I'm going to give you the shorthand version. Here is a more accurate way to create the lamp and table.

Using the Ellipse Tool create four ellipses to the sizes shown. I'm using pixels for measurement. In the Page Options menu, (Utilities) select the Units tab and change the Units to Pixels. In the Grid and Ruler tab set the Major Spacing to 100pix (type it exactly like this) and the Number of Subdivisions to 10. Click Apply and close the dialog.

Center and group the four circles. Select the group and drag the bottom center control handle upwards and right click to drop a duplicate (shown top). Select the circles again and drag the top center handle downward to make the group shown on the bottom. You only need the top and bottom groups.

Ellipses that are closer to our eye level are less open than ellipses below our eye level.

Select the Blend Tool and drag from the bottom group to the top group. With the Blend and the Blend Tool selected, change the number of Blend Steps on the Infobar to 3.

Select the Blend and from the Arrange menu select Convert to Editable Shapes. Select all the ellipses and Ungroup them (Ctrl - U). Ungroup them again to ungroup the groups.

Creating a blend of these two views will produce intermediate shapes.