PERCEPTUAL ILLUSIONS

 

"Real" or sketched reptile?

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Escher Goes Leggo!

                             

 

Finally, someone

Has managed to photograph the


Pot at the end of the rainbow!!!

Wouldn't you know it! 

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Stare at the front walll for a few seconds:  Seek and find!

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Hey, check out the latest addition to my Illusions Page!

When you look at this picture close up, you see Albert Einstein,   but if you stand about fifteen feet away, the picture will become Marilyn Monroe

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NEW: This has to be the Best illusion ever created
 
 
 
 
 
 
If you look at the above images from your seat in front of the computer, Mr. Angry is on the left, and Ms. Calm is on the right.

Get up from your seat, and move back 12 feet, and PRESTO!! They switch places!!

It is said this illusion was created by Phillippe G. Schyns and Aude Oliva of the University of Glasgow
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 STRONG!  This proves that we may not be seeing what's actually there, all the time!!??  Spooky, huh?

 

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Colorblind Test .....Way Cool!!!!!!!!!!

<http://i.madblast.com/funflash/swf/ColorBlind2.swf> http://i.madblast.com/funflash/swf/ColorBlind2.sw

(Click on link above)

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The rock .... awesome !

(The secret is to tilt your head to the left until you see the
reflection join the rock formation. You will see a woman and
child praying!!)

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Cat in the Rock!...Awesome!

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I Left my Heart in San Francisco.....................Bay! LOL!

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Care Bear in de Clouds!!!!!

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What is the symbol in the center....a B or a 13?

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Colorized Young vs. Old Woman

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Eskimo or Indian?

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If you see a star in the center, it is ONLY because you WANT to!

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Frog or Horse?  Tilt your head 90 degrees to the right.....................

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Can you "spot" Spot?

 

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Hard to believe, but TRUE!  Blocks A and B are exactly the same shade of grey!

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Holstein cow or billboard?

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A face?  ..  Or, the word 'liar' ?

(Hint: Rotate head 90 degrees Right!)

 

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Skull or woman at vanity?  You decide.

Thanks, Sunny!

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See an Oriental Couple?  Back away from imagr until you see a CAT!

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Take a second look at Jesus' face and wait for the smaller images to appear..............

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Can you find ALL Forty animals?

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Hippie man or couple kissing?  This one takes a while!

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"Impossible" Figure (....to build in 3-D)

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Ship vs. Bridge

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Houses vs. Concert Crowd

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How many horses in this picture? Should find 7

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Old Couple vs Young Mexican Serenade?

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"Impossible" Figure (....to build in 3-D)

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"Puzzling" Picture (Indoor vs. Outdoor)

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Water-Monks? (Tripped-Out!)

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Deer & Deer Tree

 

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Thee Columns vs. Rectangular Arch?

(HINT: Look at the middle column.
Where does it end? )

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DO YOU SEE FOUR PEOPLE?

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What do you see here?
Do you see the word "LIFT"? 
Or, a bunch of black splotches  ?

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STOP!  That was long enough!!!

Read out loud the text inside the triangle below.

More than likely you said, "A bird in the bush," and........


if this IS what YOU said, then you failed to see
 


that the word THE is repeated twice!
 


Sorry, look again.

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Next, let's play with some words. 


What do you see?

 In black you can read the word GOOD, in white the word EVIL (inside each black letter is a white letter). It's all very physiological too, because it visualize the concept that good can't exist without evil (or the absence of good is evil ).

Now, what do you see?

You may not see it at first, but the white spaces read the word optical, the blue landscape reads the word illusion. Look again! Can you see why this painting is called an optical illusion?
 
 
 
What do you see here?

 
This one is quite tricky!
 
The word TEACH reflects as LEARN.

 

Last one.
 
What do you see?

You probably read the word ME in brown, but.......
 
when you look through ME
 
you will see
 
 YOU:  Because you bring the BEST out in ME!

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Finally, stare at either image for thirty seconds.......then look at a blank white sheet of paper for several  seconds..........  Cay you say "negative afterimage"?

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PS  Wanna see a blond pole dancer?  (Click on question to left)

 

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Illusions Addendum

Illusions according to Carlton

 

Ask Bill Nye

Hi Bill,

Why does the Moon appear larger when it's closer to the horizon than when it's high in the night sky? --Jim

Ask Bill Nye

Got a question for the Science Guy?

Ask Bill Nye!

Dear Jim,

That is a great question. Many of us have seen the Moon near the horizon* and felt sure that it looked larger than later in the evening, as it rises. Try this exercise for fun:

Get a stiff piece of paper (like a 3-in x 5-in card) and a pencil or pen. When the Moon rises near the horizon, hold the card at arm's length, lock your elbow, and hold your arm straight. Move your arm and hand so that the card goes across the Moon's widest part, its diameter. With your other hand and the pencil, mark the edges of the Moon, where they cross the card. Mark carefully, as the shape will be only a few millimeters wide. Now, wait a few hours.

Moon Illusion (Image credit: Michael J. Howell/Liaison Agency)

You can use the same card that you marked a few hours ago, but it is quite interesting to get a second card and repeat the measurement independently. Mark the Moon's diameter along the edge of a card. Hold the two cards edge to edge: The Moon will be the same size!

Studies have been carried out with disks of different diameters mounted so that they can slide on tracks, to determine why the Moon looks smaller when there is nothing behind it but blue sky or stars. No one is sure, but apparently the presence of familiar objects along the horizon throws us off.

If you find yourself among trees, try this one too. Observe the Moon with tree branches in the foreground. Now, walk a few paces to your right or left so that the Moon is hanging in clear sky with no branches in the way. It immediately looks smaller! You know it hasn't changed size, but it looks like it has.

Our brains compare the Moon to buildings and trees, and figure that it must be huge! Well, it is big; it's 3,476 kilometers (nearly 2,150 miles) in diameter. That's about a quarter the diameter of Earth. Although it's a long way off--384,400 kilometers (almost 238,900 miles) away--when it's low near the horizon, it looks like you could reach out and touch it. Of course if you claimed you really could touch it, I might think you're loony, or Moon-y. Keep looking up.