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Disney's purposeful accidental view
Category: Art
Or forced perspective. I suspect this is more sensitive to viewpoint than the previous post. -via BoingBoing-...
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Walking on water
Category: Vision
These installations (or more precisely drawings on the floor and ceiling) take advantage of our use of textures to perceive a third dimension/depth out of monocular cues. I'm curious how effective they are from different viewpoints. Perhaps there are some accidental views that make the texture completely boring instead of...
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Accidental view of the day - Arm up the arse.
Category: Vision
Wow... just wow. -via The Spoiler-...
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Accidental view of the day - Fish Man!
Category: Psychology
-Via Neatorama-...
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How to support a gymnast
Category: Vision
A great view: -via This is... Photobomb!-...
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An odd view of San Francisco
Category: Vision
This (I guess?) accidental view of a San Francisco house really shows how steep the hills are. -Via BoingBoing- "Håkan Dahlström got this delightful shot of one of San Francisco's steeper hills, turning his camera so that the road (and not the houses) were at level to convey the extent...
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Quick, easy, 3D model from 2D flickr images
Category: Vision
This group can build a 3D model from millions of flickr images from any city/location/public restroom. Amazing! Scholars at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a method for creating 3D models of pretty much anything in pretty much no time. Using a sexy algorithm and the...
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Two great accidental viewpoints
Category: Psychology
I love accidental viewpoints. (I studied the opposite in graduate school - the optimum view). Check these out: Anyone care to speculate on what's actually going on? (answer & source here)...
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The Invisible Gorilla
Category: Books
I'm sure by now you've heard about inattentional blindness, as I've posted about it a million times since this blog began. It's an amazing effect! It shows us that we really aren't as aware of the world as we think we are. If you haven't heard about it by now...
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