OK folks now for some fun science. Please visit this image and explain the effect. If you are certifiably color blind please visit anyway as I am curious if you still observe the illusion and would love your comments.
www.imminst.org/forum/index.php
Many of you folks are some of the smarter people I have met so consider this complement a blatant come on and hook. I have already gone out on a limb and posted my reasoning on the web site but I would love to hear this discussed here and if any of you are not members there please consider it too.
Now I will shamelessly cross post this on a few other relevant tribes. If you are members there please forgive me ;-)
www.imminst.org/forum/index.php
Many of you folks are some of the smarter people I have met so consider this complement a blatant come on and hook. I have already gone out on a limb and posted my reasoning on the web site but I would love to hear this discussed here and if any of you are not members there please consider it too.
Now I will shamelessly cross post this on a few other relevant tribes. If you are members there please forgive me ;-)
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Re: Explain this
Thu, May 20, 2004 - 7:08 PMHey there
that is a cool illusion
Here what may satisfy (or increase) your curiosity:
www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akita...ift.pdf
(the original picture here: www.ritsumei.ac.jp/%7Eakita...x-e.html)
....and another cool page for some more questioning:
www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html
How detailed an explanation of this phenomenon do you seek?
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Re: Explain this
Thu, May 20, 2004 - 8:32 PMThanks Virginie the Bach site has a detailed explanation of the illusion but I am also curious as to "why" the sensory image is processed by the brain this way, not simply a formula for making do so. Bach gets into this with the argument about eye movement but I am also interested about color contrasting because the effect is not there with monochrome wheels of black and white, or is it?
And even if it is, is this still a combination of sensory distortion and a cognitive process?
I am asking for "why" the brain perceives movement, more than just "how" the brain perceives this as movement. I will delve deeper into this too but I would love more feedback from folks on this kind of question. Your input has been very helpful.
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