illusions (i LIKE illusions)
this one is from the very fine new blog ColorLovers.
"See a new color you've never seen before!!...Well... at least never before on your monitor. It's a startling example of how poor the green/cyan element is on TVs and monitors generally. The colour you are about to witness is actually true Cyan ... a colour that is heavily diluted on the majority of monitors (thanks to colour pollution)."
***If you don't follow the directions, all you'll see is a little flickery coruscant of the colour*** so ... don't tell me if you cheat, ok?
Directions: (paraphrased from the website)
stare at the white dot in the centre of the red circle for 2 minutes.
keep focused on the white dot.
you'll start to see a thin rim of light around the edge. don't stop yet. wait the full 2 minutes, keeping your head still.
THEN.. slowly...move your head backwards . keep your eyes focused on the dot. pause and move back slightly a few times.
glory in that clean glow.
this was the winning entry in an illusion contest, and is a nice example of the parallel lines illusion:
"The visual system tends to treat two side-by-side images as if part of the same scene. However hard we try to think of the two photographs of the Leaning Tower as separate, albeit identical images of the same object, our visual system regards them as the ‘Twin Towers of Pisa’, whose perspective can only be interpreted in terms of one tower leaning more than the other."
"See a new color you've never seen before!!...Well... at least never before on your monitor. It's a startling example of how poor the green/cyan element is on TVs and monitors generally. The colour you are about to witness is actually true Cyan ... a colour that is heavily diluted on the majority of monitors (thanks to colour pollution)."
***If you don't follow the directions, all you'll see is a little flickery coruscant of the colour*** so ... don't tell me if you cheat, ok?
Directions: (paraphrased from the website)
stare at the white dot in the centre of the red circle for 2 minutes.
keep focused on the white dot.
you'll start to see a thin rim of light around the edge. don't stop yet. wait the full 2 minutes, keeping your head still.
THEN.. slowly...move your head backwards . keep your eyes focused on the dot. pause and move back slightly a few times.
glory in that clean glow.
this was the winning entry in an illusion contest, and is a nice example of the parallel lines illusion:
"The visual system tends to treat two side-by-side images as if part of the same scene. However hard we try to think of the two photographs of the Leaning Tower as separate, albeit identical images of the same object, our visual system regards them as the ‘Twin Towers of Pisa’, whose perspective can only be interpreted in terms of one tower leaning more than the other."
Comments
The leaning tower illusion is great. I was convinced that the tower to the left had been tilted to the left !
could be the start of a good thread this.
We actually branded an office furniture range called Illusion several years ago.
Not my design for the final logo but Ive got some of my examples somewhere. I'll try and find them
cant remeber who carried out the following but...zulus were tested with the same kind of materials as some yanks were tested with
and the zulus proved to have indifferent perception regarding lines and angles in such illusions as non existent. wheteher this was proved to be genetics or environment cant really remeber although I have my theory that the zuluz having lost enogh wars against the westerners thought "lets fuck these bastards up one way or another." :happy:
But the experiment and results are true, all true honest!
vortexual
the icon is nicely done, squappi; it'd be cool to see your examples.
noted: overbyte complains about the afterglow.
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ps... orson.. nice!
regrettably, this anigif is pretty big. give it a second to get going.
we determined the direction of a person's gaze using a very simple cue: darkness.
Cooool!
credit where credit is due, (and required).
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html
lots more there as well.
http://flashfabrica.com/f_mov_obj/slitAnime/horse.html
speaking of slit animation and horses,
i just ran across " A Parallax Illusion with CSS: The Horse in Motion"
Resize your browser width (not height) to see the effect.
gotta love those illusions...
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
How many?
Ok, now count them again.
[hide]Most people will at first count 3, but there are actually 6. Our brains omit the F's in 'OF' because we read so quickly, and see the word as a whole not individual letters.
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.[/hide]
Clever huh?
Then, I realized I had missed the 'f' in 'of', and read your description. Nice.
There's an escher pic like that too which is really badass...i will have to find
the Droste Effect is making its way into music vids; i heartily approve.
i like it.
fascinating.
doubleplus creepy, too! zowie
there are 3 colours. the blue and the green are the same value.
the RGB colors in both spirals are 0, 255, 150
Of course we now know that really the elephants are the same size!