I really enjoyed slime hand. It really brings home the potential of various haptic devices which will enhance our experiences in VR/metaverse.
Illusion of the Year 2021
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#12The crocs illusion is just plain wrong. It says "the correct answer is ". They then contradict themselves by saying it's green-gray. It's green-gray. Am I crazy? Any else's thoughts?
I wasn't too impressed with this one, either. In my mind, this illusion is much more straightforward demo of a similar effect (color perception being relative to surrounding colors):
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#13In "the double ring illusion" I'm unable to see them as 180° rotations. I see all rings in the video doing constant 360° rotations, and I don't care if they intersect.
Maybe I'm too used to see virtual 3D animations where objects can intersect and do whatever they want without any physics involved.
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#14Illusion of the year: "I won".
Another one: “Brandon”
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#15Majority of the illusions seem to be 2D object projected as 3D object, they still get me every-time though. Definitely would recommend a game called Superliminal if this kind of stuff gets you.
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#16In "the double ring illusion" I'm unable to see them as 180° rotations. I see all rings in the video doing constant 360° rotations, and I don't care if they intersect. Maybe I'm too used to see virtual 3D animations where objects can intersect and do whatever they want without any physics involved.
I'm the opposite. I see the rings spinning back and forth in all the examples.
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#17Some of these are pretty cool but I always feel like the ones that depend on the camera being in a fixed perspective aren't nearly as cool.
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#18The crocs illusion is just plain wrong. It says "the correct answer is ". They then contradict themselves by saying it's green-gray. It's green-gray. Am I crazy? Any else's thoughts?
You need to make a distinction between color of the shoe (under normal lighting conditions) and pixel values of the shoe in the photograph.
The shoe is pink under normal lighting conditions, but the pixel values are green-gray in the photograph, where the lighting has been manipulated.
So, if you were to use a color-dropper tool on the photograph, you would get green-gray values for those pixels.
But some people are able to do color-correction in their minds and determine that the underlying color of the shoe (under normal lighting conditions) is pink. Indeed, the automatic color correction that occurs as they visually process the image is so strong that they find it hard to recognize that the actual pixel values are green-gray.
Yet when the color of the socks is changed to white, but nothing else about the photograph is altered, the visual cue that prompts them to do color-correction in their minds disappears, and they perceive the shoe color in the photograph to be green-gray, just as others do.
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#19Since the site is struggling, here's the videos in top ten order: https://youtu.be/i4p_x0S5bmQ https://youtu.be/TXk-Oc35oN4 https://youtu.be/bVbPmFpspXc https://youtu.be/q_JqmwwbtpA https://youtu.be/yC5kHTsmXqQ https://youtu.be/zWr63p3gsM0 https://youtu.be/LFvOzXUMXwM https://youtu.be/jb29X2SrgDM https://youtu.be/CePZ6vwYOYQ https://youtu.be/a7LUNyMvGqU
I don't get the fourth one, the one with the different colored crocs. I put a color meter on the images and the mystery pair is definitely not the same color as the pink pair.
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#20The crocs illusion is just plain wrong. It says "the correct answer is ". They then contradict themselves by saying it's green-gray. It's green-gray. Am I crazy? Any else's thoughts?
You need to make a distinction between color of the shoe (under normal lighting conditions) and pixel values of the shoe in the photograph. The shoe is pink under normal lighting conditions, but the pixel values are green-gray in the photograph, where the lighting has been manipulated. So, if you were to use a color-dropper tool on the photograph, you would get green-gray values for those pixels. But some people are…
I'm still not convinced. They said the answer is pink. But...it wasn't pink, even to their own admission. A pink shoe, when placed under pure-green lighting is no longer pink: at this point we're out of illusion territory and into lighting trick / semantics territory.
If they'd have said the answer is green-gray, then fine, this would be an illusion for those people who incorrectly thought the shoes are pink, but their answer is still wrong.