Silencing demonstrates the tight coupling of motion and object appearance. Simply by changing the retinotopic coordinates— moving the object or the eyes—it is possible to silence awareness of visual change, causing objects that had once been obviously dynamic to suddenly appear static.
Category Archives: Illusions
Gutter Illusions
Ten Amazingly Rude Optical Illusions
Because you have a dirty mind.
Santa is an Illusion
Merry Christmas to everyone who is celebrating Christmas
The Wheels on the Illusion Go Round and Round
FX
Messin’ With Your Mind
Building Illusions
Amazing 3D Projections on Buildings
NuFormer is a company in the Netherlands that specializes in outdoor advertising of a very peculiar sort — done on the faces of buildings. Real buildings are mapped and modeled in 3D, and then animations are created using those models and projected back onto the building. The result is incredibly lifelike — it nearly fools the eye — and whoever designs these animations does an amazing job of taking advantage the buildings’ nooks and crannies to make things look like they’re really happening in 3D space.
We Ames to Please
MiB Redux
Oh, wait — wrong MiB. We were never here *flash*
Steady fixation favours disappearance, blinks or gaze shifts induce reappearance. All in all reminiscent of the Troxler effect, but stronger and more resistant to residual eye movements.
I’ve previously linked to an effect with Troxler fading
Inside Out