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3-D Optical Illusions

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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#61 Post by Alan H » July 31st, 2012, 3:07 pm

Latest post of the previous page:

Both circles are well, circles, apparently...
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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#62 Post by Dave B » July 31st, 2012, 4:26 pm

That does weird things to one's perception - ugh!
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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#63 Post by Tetenterre » November 4th, 2012, 9:38 am

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Stare at this pic carefully and you will see this man turn his face.
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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#64 Post by Alan H » November 4th, 2012, 11:31 am

Excellent!
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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#65 Post by Dave B » November 4th, 2012, 12:26 pm

Good, but what happened to the end of his nose in the sideways "view" I wonder? Is it some sort of computer pointer getting in on the act?
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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#66 Post by jaywhat » November 7th, 2012, 9:50 am

Didn't have to look carefully. It was strangely two people at the same time. Now I need to lie down. :smile:

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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#67 Post by Dave B » November 7th, 2012, 1:48 pm

jaywhat wrote:Didn't have to look carefully. It was strangely two people at the same time. Now I need to lie down. :smile:
That's like the silhouette of, either, one chalice or two faces, look long enough and it changes back and forth . . . and makes one feel queezy!
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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#68 Post by Fia » December 5th, 2012, 9:07 pm

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Although mightily impressive, I don't think any benefit would last for long, unless in many places and constantly changing characters. Testosterone fuelled youngsters would detour by them to give female passengers a fright.

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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#69 Post by Dave B » December 5th, 2012, 9:36 pm

It takes a special kind of brain to work out the required distortions in the artwork for this kind of thing. (Assuming no optical equipment is used to project the images of course!)
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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#70 Post by Alan H » December 6th, 2013, 1:11 pm

The two surfaces look to be different shades - until you place your finger over the join...
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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#71 Post by Dave B » December 6th, 2013, 1:36 pm

Strange, there seems to be a short time delay for me before the shades look the same.

Like the man said on The Infinite Monkey Show, the larger part of what you think you see is supplied by the brain, not your eyes.
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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#72 Post by Alan H » December 21st, 2014, 11:43 am

This is four concentric circles...
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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#73 Post by Tetenterre » December 21st, 2014, 11:55 am

The crosses are the same colour.
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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#74 Post by Dave B » December 21st, 2014, 12:53 pm

Interesting...
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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#75 Post by Alan H » December 21st, 2014, 2:08 pm

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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#76 Post by Dave B » December 21st, 2014, 3:44 pm

Bit like the ping pong ball on the fountain ?

Do not try with a gas cooker!!!
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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#77 Post by Tetenterre » December 22nd, 2014, 12:17 pm

Hah! Well, that was interesting and nicely serendipitous:

Try this with the YouTube clip Alan just posted: stare at the centre while it plays for about 20 seconds, then pause it. What (if anything) do you notice?
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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#78 Post by Dave B » December 22nd, 2014, 5:05 pm

Hah! Brain gap again in my last post - I had gone from the rotating rings and viewed a clip of a paper plane flying round in circles over the rings of an electric cooker. Forgot that no-one else had seen that!

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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#79 Post by Alan H » December 22nd, 2014, 5:52 pm

Dave B wrote:It's me age y'know.
We know, we know... :D
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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#80 Post by Alan H » February 12th, 2015, 12:50 pm

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Re: 3-D Optical Illusions

#81 Post by Dave B » February 12th, 2015, 2:50 pm

Very clever!
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