This brings to mind the following book. You might want
to check it out - most illustrations are distorted
grids of some sort. I saw the orignal work of art for
the image using the cylindar mirror and it is really
amazing. Maybe your local library will have it?
Sandburg, Carl. Arithmetic. New York: Harcourt, Brace,
Javanovich, 1993. ISBN 0-15-203865-5.
Ted Rand has illustrated Carl Sandburg's poem for
children, Arithmetic, as an anamorphic adventure. The
images in Arithmetic can be seen normally by viewing
them from an indicated angle or by viewing their
reflection in a cylinder.