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Category Archives: Optical illusions
Minimalism
I looked at a picture painted white with a dot White, with that black dot and I thought Why bother painting that black dot in the middle With the white all around it, makes it so little Just a little … Continue reading
Apple Playing with Perspectives
I love optical illusions, and Apple has recently released ‘Perspective’, which is a short film using optical illusions and typography to present the values of “creative” innovation associated with its brand. This is the text in the short video: “Here’s … Continue reading
Crazy Circle Illusion
Don’t trust your eyes. This is another optical illusion showing that your brain prefer consistency before accuracy.
Felice Varini Brings Optical Illusions Up to Another Level
Felice Varini is a Swiss artist who was nominated for the 2000/2001 Marcel Duchamp Prize, known for his geometric perspective-localized paintings in rooms and other spaces, using projector-stencil techniques. Felice paints on architectural and urban spaces, such as buildings, walls and streets. The paintings … Continue reading
Bertrand Russel’s Theory of Knowledge
Is the color green a property of the grass, the photon, or the detector? Bertrand Russels mind bending argument in full: i) If naive realism is true, then things are what they seem, and we can study how things … Continue reading
Supercool 3D Optical Illusion
Just another proof that you just can’t trust your eyes.
OkGo Illusion Video
Amazing music video crammed with optical illusions, showing that our perception of reality can both be an an objective one and a subjective one – and sometimes both at the same time. And sometimes we can’t tell which is which. I can’t … Continue reading
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Tagged cognitive illusions, Optical illusions, Perception, psychological phenomenon
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Can You Trust Your Eyes?
How do you know what you’re seeing is real?
Change Blindness
Dan Levin and Daniel Simons conducted a person-change study, and found that about 50% of people didn’t notice they were talking to a different person. See the clip here: This sort of person-change rarely (if ever) happens in the world. You might assume, … Continue reading
Posted in Face perception, Judgement and Decision making, Optical illusions, Perception, Psychology
Tagged change blindness, cognitive bias, cognitive neuroscience research, cognitive illusions, face perception, faces, Optical illusions, psychological phenomenon, psychology, science, visual illusion
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Invisible Optical Illusion
Try this exercise: close your left eye. Notice that big thing obscuring the left side of your vision? Yes, it’s your nose! Now, close just your right eye. You can see your nose on the right! No big surprise there. OK, … Continue reading
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Tagged cognitive illusions, nose, Optical illusions, Perception
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