Illusions Blog

1. Stepping Feet Illusion

When the image takes the black lines in the back out, the rectangles look like the are moving at the same pace and time. But then the black image is there it makes them look like some one walking. It is really cool.

I didnt think it would make a difference but it is really cool.

Eyes like to play tricks on us. Illusions are crazy.

Day to day I have to see things it is crazy to think that am image that is there could totally change the image if a part is taken out.

2. Steokinetic Phenomenon

The rotation of the images creates a 3-D effect. The image can either be portrayed as a cone coming out of the screen or a tunnel going into the screen.

This suprises me that you can see it both ways. I would think you should only be able to see one things.

Our brain can change images to what ever we want to see. Or our brain wants to see. I can not see both a tunnel and a cone at the same time it is either one or the other.

a lot of paintings of images like this have an effect on us. You don't think about what is going on until it is done. Art work has an effect on everyone whether they know it or not.

3. Snake Illusion Ad lib

This illusion seems to be expanding when it is really a stationary figure. The repition in design is what I beleive makes it look like it is expanding when you are not looking right at it.

Surprising that the brain can see what it not there.

Sight has many different ways of changing what we see. our brain takes images makes them what it wants then lets us see.

Colors are a big part of life. If patterns cause this hypnosis like state it is crazy.

4.Motion Aftereffect

The sprialing tunnel with the cross in the center is causing me a headache and it is not an image we see all the time. Because we are seeing expanding in the sprialing, when the image of the statue comes up it looks like it is expanding.

What surprised me was that the speed of the spiraling figure had an effect on how fast the image would expand I did not think that it would.

We perceive the world through sight. But everything we see or perceive is not always there. It is just what our brain wants us to see. Its like our brain has control on what we can and can not see.

I wonder if street signs were rotating how would that effect what we see on a regular basis.

5. Breathing Square

By putting and image behind another image it makes it so the person looking at it can only see a certain portion of it. So if there is a square you will only see a little bit of it.

Not much surprised me The image was moving around so it made it seem like the square was "breathing" Because it went up and down . In a breathing like motion.

In geometry images are used all the time. By placing an image atop another image, an image could be lost. Or if the top image was transparent you could see both images.

6. Structure for Motion at Equiluminance Effect

There are dots all over a page. When not moving it looks like a bunch of dots, but when the dots are in motion than the dots seem to form a sphere even though it is not there.

Surprising that just setting something into motion changes what is happening. Motion changes everything. You have speeds, velocity, gravity. There is a lot going on in the image.

Each day I see things stationary and I see things in motion. I don't think about the things that are moving as ever being stationary and I don't think about things being moving if they are stationary.

Our brains function usually what we want and what they want. It is interesting. That motion has such a big effect on things we do.

7. Hidden Figures

It is cool to see a hidden dog on an ink blotted page.

An image is the last thing I would think to see in a ink blot.

Interesting to know that some people can not see things that others can.

Eyes see what they want our brain sees what it wants. Very cool.

8. Hollow Faces Even

when a mask turns around you can see a face protruding out even though it is really inverted.

surprising I didn't know that that was true.

No matter which way it is turned if you look at it just right it is a protruding face.

We see faces and masks everyday It is interesting to know the an image of a face flipped over still looks like a protruding face.