SOMETIMES you have to see things to believe them, and these optical illusions are no exception.
From breathing squares to the Pac-Man illusion, you’ll be amazed at how much your eyes can deceive you.
Optical retailer Lenstore has created these examples of impressive illusions and provided explanations for why your eyes are deceiving you.
The compilation includes an explanation of the Ebbinghaus illusion, which shows how objects of the same size can appear larger or smaller depending on their surroundings.
Knowing about the Ebbinghaus illusion is useful because it can explain why the full moon looks so big when it rises.
When the Moon is low on the horizon, it can be compared to many earthly things, such as buildings and trees, making it appear huge.
These pears are the same color Credit: Lenstore
However, when it is in the sky, it appears smaller compared to the dark expanse.
Lenstore illusions also explain motion blindness and how dark and light backgrounds can change your perception of the same color.
The science behind optical illusions
This brief explanation can help you untangle your brain…
- Optical illusions make a little more sense when you learn that our eyes have very little to do with what we see and that it is our brain that plays a key role in creating images and trying to protect us from potential threats that come our way. surround.
- Our brain is constantly trying to understand the world at the fastest rate even though the world is in 3D and the images on our retina are in 2D.
- It can be very difficult for your brain to interpret everything at once, so it will often take shortcuts and give you a simplified version of what you’re seeing so you can react faster if the object you’re looking at seems dangerous.
- When you look at an object, what you actually see is light bouncing back into your eye, converted into electrical impulses that your brain then converts into an image.
- Our brains can distort straight lines if an object in the way seems to be getting closer because it wants to emphasize a potential threat.
- Different colors and light and dark can make objects of the same size look different, or make patterned images appear to be spinning.
In other news, this brain-frying optical illusion will leave you wondering what you’re looking at.
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Categories: Optical Illusion
Source: newstars.edu.vn