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Science and technology news featuring dancing robots, amazing optical illusions and the latest on depression research.

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Try to find the optical illusion while listening to the music…..try moving ur head sideways or back and forth! If u find it, comment it…..

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“The Analysis of Beauty” installation takes its name from the book of the same name written and published by the painter, engraver and satyrist William Hogarth in 1753. On account of the (subjective, but strong) similarity between the imagery of this installation and DNA (this similarity was pointed out to Adam Lowe by Joe Banks), this work was exhibited directly opposite one of Francis Crick and James Watson’s original models of DNA

The sinusoidal patterns visible in this installation produce an optical illusion known as the Kinetic Depth Effect - whereby impressions of “sculptural” form emerge despite the absence of any of the (object) precedence, (geometric and aerial) perspective, stereopsis and (motion) parallax cues traditionally thought to determine human perception of three-dimensional space.

After a little while, the lines may appear to fuse into a rising column or rotating vortex (this impression and its changes in orientation are not generated on-screen, but inside the mind of the viewer). The jumpiness of You Tube sequences can compromise the formation of this illusion, so it may be necessary to let the data for entire clip load completely into You Tube once, before watching the video for a 2nd time, to achieve a smoother image. You may find the image clearer if viewed at the smallest You Tube magnification (buttons to the bottom right of the You Tube screen).

“The Analysis of Beauty” featured in almost every Disinformation solo exhibition, and has also been exhibited at (in “The Rumble” exhibition at) The Royal Society of British Sculptors (London), Sonar at CCCB (Barcelona), The Chamber of Pop Culture (London), Orleans House Gallery (Twickenham), and also gave its name to an Arts Council sponsored UK national touring exhibition. A dedicated “The Analysis of Beauty” exhibition was also proposed to Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (Sunderland) in January 2003, 18 months before NGCA took the idea, to stage a show of the exact same name, described as “pretty ugly” by The Guardian, which even managed to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Hogarth’s “Analysis” in the wrong year!

Although “The Analysis of Beauty” gallery exhibit also features small sculptures, images and text, the technical set-up that produces the central image (as pointed out in “The Rumble” catalogue) strongly resembles the idea of ultrasonic visual music, played with cathode ray tube and tone generators, described by Sci-Fi author J.G. Ballard in his classic short story “The Sound Sweep” (Nova 1962).

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Relax ur eyes on the 4 dots in the middle of the picture untill vid ends then look at a wall.

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I dragged square A onto square B in Photoshop to prove that both squares are the same shade of grey.

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Look at the 4 dots in the image for 30 secongs and then you will see an illusion.

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A 3D object rotates and different scans are synchronized and the outcome is a blurred perception -amazing looks amazing

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Dont worry nothing is gona pop out just watch close in the middle thil the instruction says walk away then watch to somthing els like your table you will see the table do weard things

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The two black vertical lines are actually the same size. this was originally a single still frame (the first frame of the video), and from that it’s hard to see that the lines are the same height (though print this out and use a ruler and you’ll see they are). i created this quicktime to illustrate just how the illusion works. all i do in the video is slowly take away the other elements in the picture.

i never alter the lines as i erase other parts of the image. both lines are exactly the same height, but the other diagonal lines around them give the illusion of one being smaller than the other because our brains perceive the horizontal lines coming together as moving away from us into the distance, thus interpreting the “rear” black line as larger.

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The best way to see these images is at higher resolutions. I am disapointed in the quality of how the videos look on-line, so I will have a larger file format for downloading on my home site.

The Cydonia Surprise anamorph demonstrates the basic principals of the process used to illustrate what is otherwise hidden from plain view.

Using seek go to the 00.16 mark. Note that the Viking mars face is now a new alien face… in the mirror position…look at the eyes for rientatation.

Now note how details resolve in this perspective… a key to understanding how to “un-lock” the hidden images… go to 17 and note how tone changes bring out the icnographic synbols.