This section of the book is called "Fun Things." Many of the files contain
interesting illusions. I provide additional information for those which I know or have
found reasonable explanations. The interesting Links section provides an
opportunity for you to visit other people's computers that contain information relevant to
the Joy of Visual Perception. A very informative website about illusions
is presented by Prof. Dr. Michael Bach
.
Click on his name and you will be transported to his website. The reason I
like Dr. Bach's website is that he not only has presented some very interesting,
often dynamic, illusions, but he also provides explanations and scientific references to
back up the explanations.
- Afterimages
- Apparent motion (Phi Phenomenon)
- Blind Spot Demonstration
- Boynton Illusion
- Brightness Illusion
- Color and Brightness Influence Distance Perception
- Color Assimilation phenomenon
- Hermann Grid Illusion
- Hering and Pogendorf illusions
- Horizontal-Vertical Illusion
- ImageDisappears Before Your Eyes
- Kanizsa Illusion
- Mach Bands
- Muller-Lyer Illusion
- More equal spots that appear unequal.
- Necker cube
- Ouchi apparent motion illusion
- Perspective Illusion
- Pixelized Famous Person
- Ponzo Illusion
- Radiating Lines
- Rainbows
- Reversible Image
- Spatial Frequency Adaptation
- Spots that are physically equal don't always appear so.
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