VunjaMfupa
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- Feb 7, 2014
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If seeing is believing, then you have no choice but to totally accept all of the following images as artifacts of reality.
How do you explain all of these quirky yet truly amazing optical illusions? Blame it on your brains innate urge to constantly try and make sense of what it sees. When you take a photograph, the camera actually flattens the image it captures, allowing for a bunch of really crazy optical accidents.
Because your brain is always trying to attach sense and logic and familiarity to everything your eyes see, these optical accidents sometimes coincidentally form wayward, but coherent images.
In other words, what you see can look like two things at the same time, what you see can look like something impossible or nonsensical, or what you see can look like something completely unexpected.
An example of an image that appears to be depicting an impossible scenario is the image of a man with this head and body sticking out of a window. The man looks like he is holding a car in his right hand, when actually the car is parked on the ground, a ways below from the camera and the man in the photograph.
A great example of an illusion of two things that appear to be one thing at the same time is the image of the couple posing in jeans and white tank tops. Because of the camera angle and the way the couples legs are positioned, it looks like they both share one left leg wearing a high heel. It also looks like the girls body is simply part of the guys body.
One fun challenge is to try to plan out these crazy images. Some people are great at it, but for the most part these optical illusions happen totally by accident!
How do you explain all of these quirky yet truly amazing optical illusions? Blame it on your brains innate urge to constantly try and make sense of what it sees. When you take a photograph, the camera actually flattens the image it captures, allowing for a bunch of really crazy optical accidents.
Because your brain is always trying to attach sense and logic and familiarity to everything your eyes see, these optical accidents sometimes coincidentally form wayward, but coherent images.
In other words, what you see can look like two things at the same time, what you see can look like something impossible or nonsensical, or what you see can look like something completely unexpected.
An example of an image that appears to be depicting an impossible scenario is the image of a man with this head and body sticking out of a window. The man looks like he is holding a car in his right hand, when actually the car is parked on the ground, a ways below from the camera and the man in the photograph.
A great example of an illusion of two things that appear to be one thing at the same time is the image of the couple posing in jeans and white tank tops. Because of the camera angle and the way the couples legs are positioned, it looks like they both share one left leg wearing a high heel. It also looks like the girls body is simply part of the guys body.
One fun challenge is to try to plan out these crazy images. Some people are great at it, but for the most part these optical illusions happen totally by accident!