Sunday, April 29, 2007
Luis DP's Comment to Mac
I believe optical illusions have more to do with biology than mathematics. The human eye is an astonishing structure. Perhaps we can apply these illusions to our daily life. Take another look at the circles in the third illusion of your post. I believe I would see the left middle circle smaller even if it was actually a little bit larger than the right one. This makes me think that I have been fooled many times in my life by optical illusions, since the brain rarely doubts about information coming from sight. It feels creepy. Advertisement companies might be using them. Doesn't this make you think that standing by small people will make you look taller than you thought it would? How would you use optical illusions to fool the human eye and gain an advantage in life? One could definitely write a book about this.
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Luis, an example of this is when in a movie to show some character smaller than another they film it farther away which fools people. There are many ways to fool people, and these ways look real even though they aren't. I would love to create one illusion of my own, as the great illusionists.
Thank you for your answer and thoughts.
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