The author refers to a 'trompe l'oeil' view: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe-l%27oeil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe-l%27oeil Trompe-l'œil, which can

The author refers to a 'trompe l'oeil' view: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe-l%27oeil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe-l%27oeil Trompe-l'œil, which can also be spelled without the hyphen in English as trompe l'oeil,[1] (French for 'deceive the eye', pronounced [tʁɔ̃p lœj]) is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions. (edit: HN doesn't like the ' in a link)