Friday, March 4, 2011

Optical Illussions

SOME OPTICAL ILLUSSIONS

 
This elephant is missing a leg...or is it? The artist confuses his
viewer by changing they way our brain is used to seeing things.
It seems the more you look at the elephant, the more confusing it gets.


Did you notice the small grayish dots between the black boxes. They are not part of the drawing - they were put there by your brain! Scientists call this "visual vibration." Basically it means that when you see patterns of black and white, your eye sometimes confuses the two and blends them into patterns of gray that you see here. You are seeing something that is not really there!

Want to see the gears move?
Look at the dot and then move your head towards the screen and away from it.

This simple line drawing is titled, "Mother, Father, and daughter" (Fisher, 1968)
because it contains the faces of all three people in the title.How many faces can you find?

Hey, this is weird. It looks as though it's moving, but it's not.
The shapes confuse the eye (really the brain) into believing that they are moving.

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