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Friday, January 19, 2007

Where is my mind?






Look at more optical illusions here. I was really confused by the color perception flash animations! I actually took a screen shot, got the RGB code of the patches they say have the same color, and they do! The flash ani is not so really convincing, but trust me ;-)

    Try this trick and spin it
    Your head will collapse but there's nothing in it
    And you'll ask yourself:
    "Where is my mind?"

Pixies, Where is my mind

8 comments:

  1. Motion-induced blindness,

    http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot_mib/index.html

    It's a remarkable illusion - especially when it is forced toward not working.

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  2. That was wild. Makes you wonder what we might be missing every day. But the Mona Lisa one was easy.

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  3. Hey Uncle,

    thanks for the link! This one is actually better :-)

    -B.

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  4. Great link Bee !

    If one uses the slider bar on your browser, moving up and down slowly nullifies the dissapearence of the yellow dots !

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  5. Dear Bee,

    unfortunately, the Flash-Animation doesn't show up in my ibook... I'll have to have a look at what may going wrong with this embedding stuff sometime. But luckily, I 've got a personal preview of your post before :-).

    These effects are really great. Although, the motion-induced blindness is also inducing slight motion-sickness with me ;-)

    It would be interesting to see if this funny mis-working of the visual cortex could be mapped by MRI...

    Best, stefan

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  6. unfortunately, the Flash-Animation doesn't show up in my ibook...

    AH! Why didn't anybody tell me earlier? Sorry bout that, didn't realize Mozilla doesn't know what to do with 'width = 100%' for an embedded object. Does it work now? Best,

    B.

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  7. Dear Bee,

    YES, great, now it works!
    You're a HTML wizard :-)

    Best, stefan

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  8. I guess this motion induced blindness can vary with eye(s). For me, the right yellow dot vanishes but not the left one. It stays in vision even though I do the "watching experiment" from several angles. Any thoughts?

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