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Two months later and I’m back with another wonky perspective post. This time instead of faking depth, I’m going to remove it. Specifically, I tried my hand at making an anamorphic image of something from 1984 (because I didn’t want a meaningless picture and we read 1984 last year). According to Wikipedia, anamorphic images areContinue reading “Amalgamation”

Yes. Yes your eyes do indeed deceive you. Or rather, the cones in your eyes deceive you. This post is a slight detour from the theme of this blog, from depth perception optical illusions into the realm of color illusions. Specifically, this is going to be about how our eyes can change color from whatContinue reading “Do My Eyes Deceive Me?”

Japanese professor Kokichi Sugihara is rather well-known for several utterly mind-breaking optical illusions. I tried to recreate one of his illusions where a marble appears to roll uphill. Here are the results. It’s a six second long video that I spent three hours trying to make. At least it looks kind of cool. Process ThoughContinue reading “Reverse Gravity”

If you were alive during the 90s and are currently reading this post, not only are you probably Mr. Chalk (Hi!) but you may remember a series of optical illusion books called Magic Eye which featured numerous mind-breaking and headache-inducing autostereograms. On the surface, these images appear to be nonsensical tessellations of the same odd image orContinue reading “There Is No Third Dimension”

Because optical illusions are, as the name suggests, illusions warping the way the human brain processes visual stimuli, the best place to start when trying to understand the mechanism of these illusions is with how the brain interprets optical information in the first place. For this blog, specifically how the brain perceives distance. Now ifContinue reading “On Sight and Cyclopes”