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Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”

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koromak wrote: post #65
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.

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

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Post by runesofdoom »

nerdponx wrote: post #66
Obsnold wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I have read (though I can't cite a source at the moment) that what is sometimes taken as limits on talent/skill/material limits on medieval art was more often a stylistic choice.

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Post by user_named »

YeGoblynQueenne wrote: post #52

It seems like professor Higashiyama is really conducting research in perception, not so much psychology, as it is understood popularly. He also seems skeptical of what is commonly er perceived as psychological research- and I share his skepticism. FTA: >> Many studies place importance on overt, conscious actions like seeing and listening. And some psychologists conclude that people are of one personality type or anot…

That's a very verbose akshually you have there

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Post by aszantu »

shot_codes wrote: post #59
aszantu wrote: post #42

recently learned about postural restauration. seemingly the teeth and the hip-flexors are connected via the vestibular system. Which means, you can do all the excercises, chirpractics, yoga and so on, and still suffer back pain, because the hips don't relax. The demonstration was: molars and canines have to have contact, if they don't the vestibular system is out of tilt, put a piece of plastic between them, hip flex…

Very interesting. Do you by any chance have some supporting resources that you would be willing to share?

just some youtubes and this https://www.posturalrestoration.com/

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Post by tome »

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...

Ah yes, obviously that one, thanks!

Black marks for Google and Kagi, both of which found "The Witches" instead of "Three Witches".

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Post by deathlight »

nerdponx wrote: post #66
Obsnold wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

How about these https://egyptiangeographic.com/en/news/show/333

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Post by nerdponx »

deathlight wrote: post #76
nerdponx wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is oddly modern looking for being 500 years old.

How about these https://egyptiangeographic.com/en/news/show/333

These are even cooler. The paintings don't necessarily "modern" as much as the people in the paintings look modern.

I've never seen something so old that was so effective at bringing people to life in a way that I could relate to so immediately.

They must have been tremendously effective in their original function as funerary portraits. I was lucky enough to see several of these at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and I stood there looking at them for a very long time.

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

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Post by YeGoblynQueenne »

user_named wrote: post #73
YeGoblynQueenne wrote: post #52

It seems like professor Higashiyama is really conducting research in perception, not so much psychology, as it is understood popularly. He also seems skeptical of what is commonly er perceived as psychological research- and I share his skepticism. FTA: >> Many studies place importance on overt, conscious actions like seeing and listening. And some psychologists conclude that people are of one personality type or anot…

That's a very verbose akshually you have there

a wat

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Post by Mistletoe »

bombcar wrote: post #12
derekp7 wrote: post #5

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There is most likely something to this. A dramatic example I've seen is where you take a picture of a head, and invert the mouth and view the picture upside down (so the head is pointing down, but the mouth is still right side up). It looks slightly off, but no more than any other picture that has been altered. Now flip the picture back around right side up (mouth upside down) and if you aren't expecting it then it w…

Reminds me of the copypasta that’s says the “uncanny valley” indicates that in some time during our evolution we had good reason to identify something that looked human but wasn’t .

That was a neat copypasta thanks for introducing it to me.

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Post by Pompidou »

dbtc wrote: post #40
kuchenbecker wrote: post #34

> That is, the vertical measurement appeared longer than it is in reality. But when I had them view it while lying on their side, some of them reported that the vertical and the horizontal lengths looked the same. In other words, we discovered that when lying on one’s side, the horizontal-vertical vertical illusion does not occur Anyone with a vertical monitor can tell you that :)

Every time I rotate mine to vertical it becomes GIGANTIC

Is this some saucy humor ?
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