This is a good documentary. *requeue

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Cool, but I was kinda waiting for a explanation, a shot from another angle.

my story!

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This is probably my favorite optical illusion. I wonder if it's been used in a horror movie yet. It would have been perfect in The Shining.

The thing about these illusions when they're shown on TV is that it changes a biocular cue, into a monocular cue. This tends to make the illusion a bit more dramatic as we lose true depth perception, and which is replaced by depth perception more reliant on visual cues. Our ability to extrapolate depth in a 2 dimensional environment is solely dependent on size and shape. To me this is a lot like a painting, where our knowledge of how things work regarding size, shape and distance, helps us determine the relative sizes of things in a painting.

That's not to say this particular illusion doesn't exist when viewed biocularly, just that it's probably not as profound. I've been in a room like that (it was at some carnival or something) and let me tell you it was very disorienting.

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kind of disappointing. I was expecting it to change views.

Damn it, I hate it when my brain wont allow me see things the way they really are.

wow. my brain is a jerk for not allowing me to see the truth. my brain is no better than dick cheney.

Disappointed that there was never a few from another angle.

Hm. Guess my brain is malfunctioning then, since I didnt see anything weird or spectacular. Was obvious from the beginning that the room was fucked up...

No, it wasn't obvious.

*brain

ugh, i still haven't learned to stop doing that to my own posts..

*promote the brain

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We have/had one of these at our 'kids' science galleries. This one looks a lot more classy. But yeah, why not show it from another angle as well?

*promote

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i will *promote the hell out of this

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