Mesmerizing Animated Optical Illusions Showing How Images Are Not Exactly What They First Appear to

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Mesmerizing Animated Optical Illusions Showing How Images Are Not Exactly What They First Appear to Be

https://vimeo.com/430690235

Info/link:
https://laughingsquid.com/a-mind-sang/

[Beakybird]

1. Well worth watching!

[flamin lib]

2. Something to watch while you're stoned . . .

Or if you've never been stoned but wanna know what it might be like?

Like koyaanisqatsi.

[First Speaker]

3. Reminds me a little of an adult version of "Harold and the Purple Crayon"...

[3catwoman3]

4. interesting but rather grim...

...and creepy.

[Nitram]

12. I didn't see it as either creepy or grim. It seems to illustrate the interconnectedness between all

beings, with variations on woman, man, child and cat. Maybe I'm a glass half full kind of guy.

[dweller]

5. i don't think these are technically optical illusions

optical illusions are generally static illustrations that deceive the mind into seeing something that is dependent on perspective .. a video that leads perception to a view is something entirely different .. be careful

just my opinion

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[Newest Reality]

6. Thanks...

I think to claify that, we could go with the dictionary definition:

optical illusion
something that tricks your eyes and makes you think you see something that is not really there, or see it differently from how it really is.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/optical-illusion

That would apply to this video, no? The difference from common optical illusions is that it is animated and the illusion is transient from one to another in the process.

[dweller]

8. then perhaps

you could say any video is an optical illusion ...

again, an optical illusion deceives the mind, not leads it with imagery

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[Nitram]

14. While it is dynamic, it plays with the kind of optical illusion that Egar Rubin and

Ludwig Wittgenstein used to demonstrate that we can't see both pictures at exactly the same time - we can only toggle back and forth between them. Rubin used the classic one of two faces that could also be seen as a candlestick. Wittgenstein used one which was either a rabbit or a duck. N.R. Hanson used a drawing that was either the face of a young woman or an old woman. According to Wikipedia:

"Rubin's vase (sometimes known as the Rubin face or the figure–ground vase) is a famous set of ambiguous or bi-stable (i.e., reversing) two-dimensional forms developed around 1915 by the Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin. They were first introduced at large in Rubin's two-volume work, the Danish-language Synsoplevede Figurer ("Visual Figures&quot ...These types of stimuli are both interesting and useful because they provide an excellent and intuitive demonstration of the figure–ground distinction the brain makes during visual perception. Rubin's figure–ground distinction, since it involved higher-level cognitive pattern matching, in which the overall picture determines its mental interpretation, rather than the net effect of the individual pieces, influenced the Gestalt psychologists, who discovered many similar percepts themselves."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_vase

[yonder]

7. It's very creative but unsettling.

[Karadeniz]

9. I couldn't be this clever in a million years!

[murielm99]

10. I found it grim.

Not what I need right now.

[3catwoman3]

13. So did I.

I don’t think I watched all the way to the end.

[Nitram]

11. This is fascinating. I couldn't see all the illusions unless I stopped the video to look a little

longer whenever the scene changed.