God Awful Things

Your eyes are lying sacks.. we’ll I guess they aren’t, they just see, transmit the light to your brain, and then your brain becomes a lying sack.. Many years ago I took a color theory class which taught us about how you brain interprets colors, and how one color on different backgrounds can appear to [...]

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I apologize for a distinct lack of updates.. I blame this solely on the shoulders of work, whom have kept me busy rather than trolling the internets for fun facts.. So to tide you over, here is another brain buster.  Brought to you by the same chap responsible for the classic post “Top Down, Face [...]

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From Wired:
In the hollow mask illusion, viewers perceive a concave face (like the back side of a hollow mask) as a normal convex face. The illusion exploits our brain’s strategy for making sense of the visual world: uniting what it actually sees — known as bottom-up processing — with what it expects to see based [...]

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