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For all of you Illusion Junkies out there: **** THE FOURTH ANNUAL BEST VISUAL ILLUSION OF THE YEAR CONTEST**** http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com *** We are happy to announce the world's 4th Annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest!!*** The deadline for illusion submissions is February 15th, 2008! The 2008 contest will...
Posted on January 21, 2008 8:16 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This has to be the coolest face out of art I've ever seen. -Via Neatorama-...
Posted on January 13, 2008 11:53 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is a good collection of illusions, some of which I haven't seen before. I'm not so sure why they had to include a stupidtramp sound track though. Here's another collection with some overlap and a techno soundtrack:...
Posted on January 11, 2008 5:09 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I've entitled this illusion 'The Purple Nurple' Exciting eh? I haven't actually seen this particular one before today so I thought I'd throw it up.... so here it is: I've finally figured out where the heck this illusion has come from! It is actually called "Sea Sickness" and is by...
Posted on December 23, 2007 8:05 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Since you've all been clamouring to see it, here's my new tattoo, and a video clip of the work in progress. It's an intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell, my favourite type of neuron. The artist was Gordon at Brain Drops, highly recommended. :) Enjoy your holidays!...
Posted on December 21, 2007 8:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 13 is my birthday! Yippee, you say, how old am I? Old enough to not say... I will shamelessly mention the Amazon wish list linked from my contact page, and remind you that Omni Brain has a tip jar in the sidebar (shared with Steve). But I'm not...
Posted on December 13, 2007 8:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Just because animals doing human things are funny I give you an elephant throwing darts: -via Neatorama-...
Posted on November 28, 2007 4:26 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A Flickr user took the all the U.S. currencies with buildings on them and lined them up to the real ones in Washington D.C. Pretty cool! Omni Brain loves these tricks of vision. Check out some more here. -via Neatorama-...
Posted on November 18, 2007 10:19 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Dave Kellet jokes about a visual illusion the visual pop-out phenomenon, in his webcomic Sheldon. Click the cropped image to see the full comic strip. Thanks Dave! [Thanks, T.N. for the correction. Two blog posts about it here and here.]...
Posted on October 26, 2007 9:00 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Neato... -via Neatorama-...
Posted on October 23, 2007 9:46 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Steve Higgins is a psychology graduate student at an online university. He hopes that the three weeks and $29.95 that he is spending on his Ph.D. will get him a job at a Tier 1 research university. Do online universities have postdocs? Ok...just kidding, Steve is a real graduate student at a real school.
