Posted on 12/30/2021 8:54:41 AM PST by Red Badger
This year's winning illusion was titled The Phantom QueenMatt Pritchard VIEW 1 IMAGES
An innovative anamorphic illusion has taken the top prize in the annual Best Illusion of the Year contest. Twisting minds for 17 years the contest highlights the ways our brain can be tricked using simple perceptual illusions.
The annual illusion contest is run by the Neural Correlate Society, an organization devoted to promoting awareness of the science behind perception and cognition. For 17 years the annual contest has consistently delivered an assortment of compelling illusions, frequently underpinned by fascinating scientific principles.
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“I don’t get it. It looks like someone set up two (mostly) identical chess boards and just placed all the pieces as if there was a mirror between them and added the queen to one.”
Watch the video!
People actually believe the physical universe is NOT an illusion.
that is not real, you can’t see the brick pattern under the overlaying image like if it were painted on the real bricks
Lame
This was the best illusion of the year? Really?
Well, that and Joe Biden being POTUS...............
I think I had that poster back in the 60’s....................
Far out, Man! *SMIRK*
Wow, fascinating and a little frightening!
I really like the way she enhances the illusion by looking into the “hole.” And that narrow board across the hole for her bike tires is brilliant!
Ok, watched it. Ack, would have been a lot easier to fake the mirror.
I have a clear recollection of having been in an Ames room as a child, it was at a university close to where I lived where I would assume they were doing some sort of study. It was very strange to my young mind. I don’t know how it came to pass that I was there, but I’m pretty sure my dad brought me there.
I never knew until now what the origin of that illusion was and that it actually had a name. Thanks for posting the video, it cleared up a lingering mystery for me!
-PJ
The best optical illusion of the year 2021 is that THIS is the first-ever female four-star admiral of the U.S. Public Health Services (USPHS) Commissioned Corps.
-PJ
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