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  • Jun. 15th, 2008 at 5:08 PM
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How cool is this?!

The winner of the Best Visual Illusion of the Year contest from the Philharmonic Center for the Arts:

Our illusion shows that a colored image can produce different colored afterimages at the same retinal location. The perceived afterimage colors depend on the contours that are presented after the colored image.

Ah, the human brain: the consistency of toothpaste, with wall to wall quirk inside.

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[info]chrisbarnes wrote:
Jun. 15th, 2008 10:52 am (UTC)
Very cool indeed. Illusions like these are always fascinating. With some of them, it seems like once you know how the illusion works, you ought to be able to make it cease to work, by somehow deconstructing it. But your brain just won't let you do that. You hold a ruler against the lines, for example, and say "See? Both lines are the same length!" and Brain says "Trouble me not with your irrelevancies. Ha! I laugh at your ruler."
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