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The image is black and white and shows an unsmiling Queen that appears to move as visitors walk by - a modern day Mona Lisa?

The Queen looking to the left...

Chris Levine and a technical team took more than 10,000 images during two sittings in the Yellow Drawing Room of Buckingham Palace and the portrait is made up of just nine of them.

The Queen is wearing a white ermine cape, a string of pearls and the famous Diamond Diadem, the crown she wore for the Coronation in 1953 and the same one she wears on UK stamps and bank notes... all chosen by the artist.

Chris is well known for his innovative work with light and has worked for well known companies such as Swarovski and Cartier as well as fashion designer Stella McCartney.

His other portraits include 3-D images of Oasis star Liam Gallagher and the singer Seal.

The Queen is now looking straight on.

What is a lenticular portrait?

To create the 3D effect for his portrait Equanimity, Chris Levine used a style of printing called lenticular printing.听This technique uses several images which are sliced into strips and interlaced together. A plastic sheet containing a set amount of linear prism-like lenses is then placed on top, perfectly aligned with the images for the effect to work.

Depending on where the viewer is standing, each lens acts as a magnifying glass to enlarge and display a different portion of the image below. The combination of many lenses working together with many interlaced images creates a three-dimensional horizontal image plane when the viewer looks at the portrait from a different angle from left to right.听

This is because each eye views the print from a slightly different angle and sees a different image with different perspective views of the subject, giving the 3D stereoscopic effect. The lenticular on show uses 25 images taken from the original sequence of 200 stereoscopic images used to make the hologram that was originally shown at Buckingham Palace.