Wednesday 23 April 2008

Must-see interactive optical illusion

Just found a killer optical illusion here. The best part is that it is interactive so you can play with the parameters and try to figure out what is going on and why.

5 comments:

Anthony Peake said...

KEN:Absolute classic. This really show, in literal graphic detail, the way in which our visual processing of the external world is, in a very real sense, cognitively manipulated. What we see is not a literal version of what is 'out there' but a version of 'out there' with lots taken out and added. In my book collection I have a book entitled "Is The Visual World An Illusion" written by cognitive scientis Alve Noe. Read in conjuction with the work of Professor Richard Gregory it is clear that we perceive a heavily censored version of 'reality'.

Ken, thanks for this fascinating contribution.

johar said...

Thanks Ken I really enjoyed playing with that illusion - just goes to show ya, don't believe anything you see!!!

Karl Le Marcs said...

All;
I can't see anything now thanks to that flashing image! Even with my eyes closed I just see strobing donuts (weren't they a 70s travelling funk band?).
I feel like Homer Simpson on Acid, I see donuts everywhere!!!!

johar said...

Karl U R A DONUT *hehe*

Karl Le Marcs said...

Johar;
Hee Hee!
*chases Johar with oversized hundreds-and-thousands shaker*