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Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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Post by tome »

thedailymail wrote: post #32

Just a few days ago I was reading "Thinking with demons," an excellent history of ideas about witchcraft in Europe, and was struck by the following passage about a 16th century drawing of three witches by Hans Baldung Grien: Informing everything in the scene, and establishing iconographically that it is indeed a scene of witchcraft, is the gesture of the witch who, bent on one knee, stares backwards at the world thro…

This seems to be the drawing in question

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witches_%28Hans_Baldung%29

But where is the witch described in the passage? I don't see anything like it.

Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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Post by planede »

The prism goggles experiment is interesting, however is the effect of perspective ruled out? When looking between the legs the eyes are closer to the ground compared to just looking ahead while standing up, which could possibly explain why farther away objects look smaller.

Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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Post by Obsnold »

tome wrote: post #61
thedailymail wrote: post #32

Just a few days ago I was reading "Thinking with demons," an excellent history of ideas about witchcraft in Europe, and was struck by the following passage about a 16th century drawing of three witches by Hans Baldung Grien: Informing everything in the scene, and establishing iconographically that it is indeed a scene of witchcraft, is the gesture of the witch who, bent on one knee, stares backwards at the world thro…

This seems to be the drawing in question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witches_%28Hans_Baldung%29 But where is the witch described in the passage? I don't see anything like it.

I think it's this one:

https://www.mediastorehouse.co.uk/fine-art-finder/artists/un...

Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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Post by koromak »

quietbritishjim wrote: post #54

> The horizontal-vertical illusion is a phenomenon in which the vertical line appears longer when a horizontal line and a vertical line of the same length are drawn. For example, it has been shown that when a building that is in fact 10 meters both along its frontage and in height is viewed, it seems to the viewer that the height is 1.4 times the width, making the building look 14 meters tall. The first sentence is m…

The experiment with the 10m square building shouldn't have this problem, if it holds true.

Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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Post by nerdponx »

Obsnold wrote: post #64
tome wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This seems to be the drawing in question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witches_%28Hans_Baldung%29 But where is the witch described in the passage? I don't see anything like it.

I think it's this one: https://www.mediastorehouse.co.uk/fine-art-finder/artists/un...

This is oddly modern looking for being 500 years old.

Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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Post by belter »

quietbritishjim wrote: post #54

> The horizontal-vertical illusion is a phenomenon in which the vertical line appears longer when a horizontal line and a vertical line of the same length are drawn. For example, it has been shown that when a building that is in fact 10 meters both along its frontage and in height is viewed, it seems to the viewer that the height is 1.4 times the width, making the building look 14 meters tall. The first sentence is m…

You rotate the image but maintain the black line halfway and not centered? How is that a falsifying example of the first phrase?

"Is the Horizontal-Vertical Illusion Mainly a By-Product of Petter’s Rule?" - https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/12/1/6

Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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Post by belter »

thedailymail wrote: post #32

Just a few days ago I was reading "Thinking with demons," an excellent history of ideas about witchcraft in Europe, and was struck by the following passage about a 16th century drawing of three witches by Hans Baldung Grien: Informing everything in the scene, and establishing iconographically that it is indeed a scene of witchcraft, is the gesture of the witch who, bent on one knee, stares backwards at the world thro…

A less enigmatic explanation, for other citizens who do it a lot, mostly when they more than 14 months old: https://adailydoseofmom.com/baby-bending-over-looking-throug...

Re: Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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Post by Supermancho »

quietbritishjim wrote: post #54

> The horizontal-vertical illusion is a phenomenon in which the vertical line appears longer when a horizontal line and a vertical line of the same length are drawn. For example, it has been shown that when a building that is in fact 10 meters both along its frontage and in height is viewed, it seems to the viewer that the height is 1.4 times the width, making the building look 14 meters tall. The first sentence is m…

As I understand it, rotating the image is not the same as inverting your head via bending. The issue is purely biological, if it exists at all.
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