I dont know what they call it but its that trick where they use thousands of small pics to make one larg pic only this one has a really cool zoom efect that is endless.

http://interact10ways.com/usa/information_interactive.htm

Also more optical illusions here...

http://wohba.com/2006/06/more-illusions-of-color.html

mosaic?

That's awesome! But f*** me I get lost in those optical illusions - could stare at them for hours.

http://web.mit.edu/persci/demos/Whites/Whites.gif

All of the small bars within each pattern are actually the same color (i.e., all of the blue segments are the same color blue, all of the red segments are the same color red, and all of the small grey bars are the same color grey). The lightness differences you are experiencing are massive illusions. A theory of what's underlying the lightness illusions in this figure is described in a paper to appear in as special issue of Perception on "Contextual effects on color appearance."

ok im confused...

A theory of what's underlying the lightness illusions in this figure is described in a paper to appear in as special issue of Perception on "Contextual effects on color appearance."

I think i'll wait for the movie.

thats pretty much the coolest thing ever

I do not get it?

billy's illusion sux
mine rox
http://www.johnsadowski.com/big_spanish_castle.html
freak out

^^^ HAHA just missed it :D Here's another awsem trick. Ya gotta move the cursor out of the picture and stare at the dot in the middle for 10 seconds then keep your eyes on it when u move the cursor over it. Its a black and white picture that goes colour until you move your eyes.

http://wohba.com/pages/colorlogan0606.html

last edited by Snakeman at 20:28:19 24/Jun/06

Check out the links from this page:

http://www.uq.edu.au/nuq/jack/jack.html


This guy is one of my neuro lecturers at uni; he's kind of strange, but he studies lots of awesome stuff to do with perception.

I looked at the page, and some of the links and it was just a bunch of crap:o

Yah, he doesn't explain the stuff exactly...but the pics he showed to us and explained in some of my neuro lectures are up there, and when u understand the rationale behind some of them, they're really quite interesting. Unfortunately, I don't think he explains in detail any of it on that webpage.


Edit: Check this page out - it's pretty interesting imo.

http://www.uq.edu.au/nuq/jack/rivalry.html

last edited by Agent 99 at 15:22:44 25/Jun/06

Wow... look at this!!!!

Compare the joining regions at the centre of each cross. The one on the left should look dark grey to purplish and the joining region on the right should look pale yellow. (Be sure to get in touch with me if you don't experience them as contrasting!).

In fact these regions are physically identical, as can be seen if the surrounds are blanked off.

http://www.uq.edu.au/nuq/jack/Colorcross1.jpg
http://www.uq.edu.au/nuq/jack/Colorcross1.html

This one is awesome:

http://www.uq.edu.au/nuq/jack/bonnet.gif

Bonneh's Illusion: Invented by Yoram Bonneh. bonneh@nisan.weizmann.ac.il
At first sight this does not seem to be related to reversible figures. Nevertheless, the cyclic disappearance of the yellow discs has many similarities with the cyclic changes of perceptual rivalry. The duration of the disappearance-reappearance cycle is correlated with the binocular rivalry cycle in an individual and the disappearance phase can be cut short by disrupting Left hemisphere activity with TMS, just as with binocular rivalry.
This is the pattern used on the Catalyst program, from which I received hundreds of emails. Perhaps the most common comment was that the dots did not disappear at all. Note that that this does not mean a "slow switch" , for which one would have to see dots disappear and reappear again, but slowly. The most common reasons for the dots to fail to disappear include:- stress and tiredness, depression, anxiety, visual problems such as amblyopia or loss of vision, neurological problems etc. If the dots fail to disappear, try again when you are in a "better mood" (disappearance increases with euphoria), or at a different time of day.

Edit: The above info prolly doesn't make to much sense. Eitherways, it's just interesting to see how many of the yellow dots u can "make" disappear when staring in the middle of the screen.

The more relaxed/happy u are, the more likely the dots are to disappear.

last edited by Agent 99 at 18:13:47 25/Jun/06

That first thing is f***ing cool.
also, lol
http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/9863/lolol6on.jpg

That photo one was just awesome, I could go through that for hours - and have almost wasted one...

Some great photography in there too!

Edit: The above info prolly doesn't make to much sense. Eitherways, it's just interesting to see how many of the yellow dots u can "make" disappear when staring in the middle of the screen.

The more relaxed/happy u are, the more likely the dots are to disappear.

PHW0RE that is a great illusion. Very interesting about how your mood affects the illusion. If I think about my exam in a few hours the yellow dots dont disappear to well, while if I drop thinking about the exam and just make myself feel better they start to disappear for longer and have a much clear cyclic movement in the pattern of disappearing. A+ for that illusion.

Came across a few more:

http://web.mit.edu/persci/people/adelson/checkershadow_illusion.html
(Check out "more illusions" from the bottom of this page).

http://www.coolopticalillusions.com/backgrounds/freaky-desktop-wallpaper.htm

last edited by Agent 99 at 11:22:29 26/Jun/06