Comments on: Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see them

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:09:54 +0000

This is great. I bet DB knows about the 1985 program on BBC Horizon – Colourful Notions, about how we see color. Youtube just took it down after Penn & Teller recommended it of gawkk. You should be able to find it to download if you just do a search for the title.

By: Geeske

Geeske — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:25:32 +0000

He does have a very soothing voice. Even when he says: “If you haven’t seen the predator yet, you’re dead!” I thought to myself ‘oh well, that’s a shame I suppose…’

By: Larkspur

Larkspur — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:16:42 +0000

“Only in uncertainty is there potential for understanding.” Wise words, eh..?

I love the psychology blog posts. Please keep them coming.

@DS: He does have a very soothing voice!

By: JayKay

JayKay — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:20:45 +0000

Yeh, it sounds Dutch with a smidgen of Scottish mixed in with US too. Just to make sure all the options are covered.

By: DS

DS — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:38:10 +0000

Really interesting, it shows your senses, just like memory, are not to be trusted.

Does anyone else think this guy has a really soothing voice?

By: JayKay

JayKay — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:37:38 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CxM7a6CbyI&feature=related

Quite a few optical illusions round about this url on youtube. Quiet fun.

By: Geeske

Geeske — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:32:44 +0000

Brilliant. I saw that the grey circles in the beginning were the same, but mostly because I was on the lookout for optical illusions and I linked my past experiences with them to this one. In a way I demonstrated Beau Lotto's point exactly: my brain used its past experiences to make sense of this one. However, because one (or more) of my past experiences included these optical illusions, they did not work as well as I would have liked: I kept second-guessing my sight. On the other hand my amazement (and thus my enjoyment) increased precisely because I knew what was happening: the extended rubix was great because I couldn't believe that I was truly fooled, until I used Gimp to link the two squares.

By: li

li — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:13:11 +0000

That’s great, we’re just doing perception as our first topic in level 1 psych at uni. Ironically i’m missing it today because i have an eye infection in both eyes…
It does worry me a little that quite a lot of illusions just don’t work for me. why is that?
Oh and i shouldn’t have found the “no they weren’t BORN with numbers on them…” so funny.
x

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:00:31 +0000

How interesting. The red and green bit was scary. I feel quite vulnerable!

By: ReliegiousMarie

ReliegiousMarie — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:03:08 +0000

Great presentation…love the Bees-part and the ending is Brilliant. I would love to know more about Bees and their patterns of vision and communication among eachother…seems to be very interesting and we might learn something from their ways!…