Optical Illusions

A short cool illusion video.Are the nuts looking bent!

Stare at the center of this image. When you see the color image, move your eyes… you’ll be shocked at what you see!

This is probably the coolest video I’ve ever made. Sorry about the 2 week break, the world has been so boring recently, I’ve had nothing to talk about.

Beethoven, optical illusions, and artwork of ancestral guitars.

Philosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don’t we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are actively fooling us. As he puts it, our bodies are made up of 100 trillion little robots, none of them with an individual consciousness. So what makes us feel we have one? Or that we’re in control of it? Dennett’s hope is to show his audience that “Your consciousness is not quite as marvelous as you may have thought it is.” He uses thought experiments and optical illusions to demonstrate to the TED audience that even very big brains are capable of playing tricks on their owners.

This film aims to recreate the actual experience of a tour through The Mystery Spot, in Santa Cruz, California. Perhaps it is a manmade optical illusion, or perhaps a natural phenomenon of unbalanced gravity. It is indeed a mystery to behold.

Sound: A bed of my synthesized compositions, progressing from calming ambience to unsettling noise. Actual tour guides and visitors speak in the forefront, commenting on the activities and experience in general. Finally, the film returns to the pleasant sounds of the birds in the nearby woods.

Vision: Actual camera-shot footage of the surrounding area and scenes from multiple tours through this tourist attraction.

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More optical illusions were offered up by a 3D wide-screen display called Holovizio, which creates giant images resembling holograms. But instead of using lasers, 64 digital projectors are arranged behind the screen, and are programmed to illuminate it together, in order to build up the 3D image.

The effect works across a broader range of angles than a conventional hologram, allowing several people to view it at once. A hand-tracking system also lets viewers interact with the display, turning the image upside down or back-to-front.

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

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…..

“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).