Season 5 ~ Episode #111 - - - 10 Best Optical Illusions of 2014

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K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on June 11, 2014 at 10:46am

GMMore: "bah . . . bah . . . bah . . . bah . . . bah . . ."

K-ModPermalink Reply by Alexis (Indigo Sparrow) on June 11, 2014 at 11:55am

Ikr? I was so happy when it stopped.

Permalink Reply by Nolan (Jedi~Squirrel) on June 11, 2014 at 1:27pm

I thought it would never stop!

K-ModPermalink Reply by Victoria (Centauromadoose) on June 20, 2014 at 7:04pm

The optical illusion Link demonstrated with the "painter tape" (anamorphosis) is evident in a famous work of art by Hans Holbein the Younger called The Ambassadors:

It might be harder to tell with just a picture of the painting, but if you stand off to the far, far right of the image -- with your eyeline parallel to the wall/surface -- the stretched out blob on the bottom takes the normal shape of a skull. No one is really sure why Holbein put it in the painting, except maybe as a reference to mortality (as skulls have often been used in art history) along with some of the other smaller details of the scene.

Permalink Reply by Lilian Brandon (Tachyonic Raven) on June 23, 2014 at 8:02pm

I actually could tell that the colors hadn't changed on the stripe one (6:51), because to me it looked plaid no matter which way the black lines went! I wonder if the illusion works better on men vs women (women are apparently better at gauging fine color differences).