Want more optical illusions? See if you find the frog in this photo or the hidden faces in this one. Norcia apparently showed this illusion to 100 people, and it took them an average of 45 seconds to see it. Yes, apparently there is such a thing as the illusion of the year. In the occlusion illusion, the visible portion of a partly occluded object (e.g., a half circle partly hidden behind a rectangle) appears to be. The illusion was actually a finalist for the 2006 Illusion of the Year. The illusion works because of our brain’s tendency to want to see closed shapes, and because of its interpretation of the vertical versus the horizontal stripes. The Coffer Illusion, named after the architectural term “ coffer,” was created by Anthony Norcia of The Infant Vision Laboratory at Smith-Kettlewell. Recent work suggests that two other critical factors involved in the perception of the Ebbinghaus illusion are the distance of the surrounding circles from the. This particular illusion has been so omnipresent online lately that even Today did a feature on it. His post has since been shared about 10,000 times by some people who were equally confounded, and others who thought Johnson was a blind moron. He said it took him 30 minutes to find the circles. The person who posted the puzzle, Nicholas Johnson, is actually a magician and entertainer who also educates children on the science of deception and the mind. Can you spot them? I’ll give you a second to stare at it.Īs one commenter on the photo said, “Once you see them, you can’t unsee them.” Still can’t find them? I’ll give you a hint: Look between the rectangles… There are actually 16 circles in this photo. At first glance, this would appear to be just a bunch of black and white lines and squares.
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