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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Interesting Illusions

These are from the Best Illusion of 2008 Contest.
They each show something cool about our perception.





"Filling in the Afterimage after the Image" (I could not get Blogger to accept the link to the animation; get it from the contest page) shows that (in my interpretation) the retina sees the 8-pointed figure as a superposition of two uniformly colored 4-pointed stars, and produces the corresponding afterimages.






"Dramatically Different Percepts between Foveal and Peripheral Vision" tells it all. (Again, link to animation from the contest page).

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