Thursday, January 22, 2009

Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena (Psychology)


Directions
1) Go to the website http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html

2) Select an optical illusion from each category (for examples "Pyramid Illusion" in the Luminance and Contrast category)

3) Follow the directions on the screen and observe the phenomena.

4) Write down in your own words a description or explanation of why the illusion works.

-We will go into more depth in the class if you want to learn more.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

I see just a ladies face I dont see a musician

Shriya said...

I cannot see a girls face no matter how hard I try I even tried looking at it from different angles...all I see is a muscician? funny coz nearly in all the other illusions I see both the things its supposed to be but in this one I only see one!

Anonymous said...

I see both, but I saw the girl's face first.

Anonymous said...

I see both the musician and the girl. But I saw the girls face first.

Anonymous said...

First i saw a musican and then when i looked betther i saw a lady too...
so i see lady and a musican :)

Anonymous said...

i saw both but i saw the musician first and then a minute later i saw the lady. so i see both

Anonymous said...

I saw the lady straight away then read the text saying there was a musician, looked again and saw the musician straight away. I can see them both! it's so weird how everyone can see it differently!

Anonymous said...

I see both lady face and the musician. .