The brilliant Richard Wiseman strikes again
Richard Wiseman is a former magician and now Psychology Professor at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK. Wiseman's renowned for his good natured debunking of paranormal phenomena and he writes an exceptionally entertaining blog. As a psychology professor, Wiseman writes a lot about how human brains perceive the world around them and his blog regularly features some really entertaining optical illusions. Check this out.
Stare on the center of this picture and remember what number of circles you spot. Stare for a while and watch what takes place. I see four down the proper facet right now after which three more groups of four begin to seem, starting on the left aspect and appearing column by means of column until I see 16 circles. Once I can see the circles, I ought to listen to break the picture and see squares again.
This 2d one's a little greater inactive and clean to look.
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Human perception isn't infallible and these illusions illustrate that perfectly. Designers exploit this fallibility daily, at least this one does. Ideas like forced perspective and sight lines are grounded in the idea that human eyes (human brains actually) can be fooled pretty easily. It's some cool stuff.
