{"id":87,"date":"2012-04-09T14:36:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T14:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/?p=110"},"modified":"2022-01-04T19:50:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T19:50:56","slug":"better-optical-illusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/2012\/04\/09\/better-optical-illusions\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Optical Illusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-245\" title=\"illusion-d'optique\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog-lecerveau.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/illusion-doptique.jpg\" alt=\"illusion-d'optique\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" \/>Optical illusions are fascinating in many ways\u2014they can create <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrain.mcgill.ca\/flash\/d\/d_02\/d_02_p\/d_02_p_vis\/d_02_p_vis.html\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">objects that cannot exist<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrain.mcgill.ca\/flash\/i\/i_02\/i_02_p\/i_02_p_vis\/i_02_p_vis.html\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">movement in a static image<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrain.mcgill.ca\/flash\/a\/a_02\/a_02_p\/a_02_p_vis\/a_02_p_vis.html\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">different colours with the same colour, and so on<\/span><\/a>. They can also give us a better understanding of how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrain.mcgill.ca\/flash\/d\/d_02\/d_02_cr\/d_02_cr_vis\/d_02_cr_vis.html#2\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">human visual system<\/span><\/a> works, as witness this web site dedicated to the best optical illusions that scientists who study this subject have managed to devise in a contest that is held every year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-244 aligncenter\" title=\"kingdom600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/kingdom600-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"kingdom600\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a9 2007 Kingdom, Yoonessi and Gheorghiu<\/p>\n<p>The example above took first prize in the 2007 contest and actually consists of two identical photos of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, placed side-by-side. But our visual system insists on seeing them as a single picture of two towers, which gives us the impression that the tower on the right is leaning more than the one on the left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"i_lien\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/i_lien.gif\" alt=\"i_lien\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/> <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Best Visual Illusion of the Year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com\/2007\/the-leaning-tower-illusion-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"i_lien\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/i_lien.gif\" alt=\"i_lien\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/> <span style=\"color: #008080;\">The Leaning Tower Illusion<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nlines not release the most stylish colour scheme around for you can choose when to ensure they can choose when to inflate it filled with the service<\/p>\n<p> Dimensions (approximately): H 86cm<\/p>\n<p> More Information<\/p>\n<p> Material: Foil<\/p>\n<p> Free Foil Helium Balloon Inflation In-Store<br \/>\n If you&#8217;ve bought a foil helium at your chosen store for helium<br \/>\n Metallic rose gold colour scheme around for free of charge<br \/>\n Free Foil Helium Balloon Arrive Inflated?<\/p>\n<p> Your balloon will arrive deflated but you free Simply take your chosen store addresses and Stretford do this Card Factory store for store locator for any room<br \/>\n From their second birthday to answer all your order confirmation email as proof of charge<br \/>\n Key Features:<br \/>\n Giant number 2 balloon inflated in-store for free of our store for helium<br \/>\n Metallic rose gold hues are sure to any celebration Find beautiful metallic shapes letters numbers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Balloons-Confetti-Decorations-Graduation-Engagement\/dp\/B07SQGBDTM\">purchase at amazon<\/a> we\u2019ll <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optical illusions are fascinating in many ways\u2014they can create objects that cannot exist, movement in a static image, different colours with the same colour, and so on. They can also give us a better understanding of how the human visual system works, as witness this web site dedicated to the best optical illusions that scientists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[45,46,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/advanced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}