Two cool optical illusions...
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Category: Art
-via neatorama and boingboing- Someone want to build me this table?...
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Or forced perspective. I suspect this is more sensitive to viewpoint than the previous post. -via BoingBoing-...
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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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Wow... just wow. -via The Spoiler-...
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A great view: -via This is... Photobomb!-...
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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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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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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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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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