OpTically OT: Optial Illusion

Tak_the_whistler · **Posted:** Sat Jan 08, 2005 3:09 am

Have fun!

Loads, loads of optical illusion here;
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html
sample works by A. Kitaoka

I thought they were joking and...this is some scary stuff.
http://www.eyetricks.com/scary_optical_illusion2.htm
(from http://www.eyetricks.com/illusions.htm)

A quick tour of;
http://www.liquidgeneration.com/sabotag ... botage.asp

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/3828/optical.html

http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot_mib/

This also is an optical illusion;

Quote:

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

amar · **Posted:** Sat Jan 08, 2005 4:37 am

ouch, my brain hurts! :boggle:

Random notes · **Posted:** Sat Jan 08, 2005 5:55 am

I stopped in, first thing in the morning before coffee and a little shaky to begin with. I didn't need this... :boggle:

R

anniemcu · **Posted:** Sat Jan 08, 2005 7:40 am

[quote Tak]I thought they were joking and...this is some scary stuff.
http://www.eyetricks.com/scary_optical_illusion2.htm [/quote] THAT one is NOT for the faint of heart!!!

I am soooo gonna get you!

I know it is funny, and I actually enjoyed it, but it is something that could trigger problems for unsuspecting people. I think you should add a warning. It won't blow the effect.

Sunnywindo · **Posted:** Sat Jan 08, 2005 9:59 am

Optical illusions! That blue/yellow/black spinning one is especially good... just set it as the background for my computer. Thanks for the fun!

Sara (who is glad she had already eaten and was fully awake before checking this thread out)

Darwin · **Posted:** Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:25 pm

I like the way the second and third ones wobble when they are scrolled, but the text is particularly impressive.

The Exploratorium in San Francisco has some nice ones, including one of those rooms with bogus perspective that makes a person near the back of the room look like a giant compared to one in the front (near the viewport).

Not to detract from the innocent fun of the illusions, but lots of books on cognitive science use optical illusions to make the point that what we see really is a mental construct based on visual cues and clues, rather than some kind of direct perception of nature. The second chapter of the book that I'm currently reading, A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness, is entitled "Believing is Seeing". I won't go into it here (no, no, don't thank me), but it's pretty interesting stuff.

Unseen122 · **Posted:** Sat Jan 08, 2005 1:06 pm

I knew that was going to happen but it scared the s**t out of me any way

. Somebody else posted a link to a similar thing I think it was amar.

amar · **Posted:** Sat Jan 08, 2005 2:36 pm

what was that??

Unseen122 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 09, 2005 7:27 am

It was some vampire chick that poped up and screamed with one of those try to find what is wrong with this picture. That is like the scary link. My brother and I call the vampire chick "Freaky Lady."

amar · **Posted:** Sun Jan 09, 2005 9:18 am

yes, true, dat waz very funny.

Unseen122 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 09, 2005 2:38 pm

Yeah look amar you have 2005 posts. Sorry I had to say something because that is the year alright I am amused easily.

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