[ideologi]

Hello!
Its me, is Logi..
Sharing some fun stuff. Funny illusion pics, with you..

[Rod_Cloutier]

Moderators- We should create a kids section for games and such. This post would fit in well as a starting post.

[dolanbaker]

Is that a spambot testing the site using an unusual testcard?

[Pops]

The mind perceives lots of things it doesn't pass along to our "conscious" self - especially things that don't conform to the running narrative it is continually spinning out as "reality".

Optical illusions are simplistic little glitches in the software, like a M-M-Max Headroom tick. But anytime someone posts anything that challenges our personal newsreel we get the same little tweak of... vertigo?

don't you think?

;^)

[dinopello]

Is it possible to develop a computer vision system that 'sees' the same optical illusions that we do ?

[Tanada]

Is it possible to develop a computer vision system that 'sees' the same optical illusions that we do ?

The reason they work on us is the brain interprets input signals looking for shadings and shadows to make a snap decision about what is moving and which way it is moving. As Pops said, its all about our software. The reason we do that is motion in the visual field is crucial to survival, anything moving could be a threat or a meal and our software automatically highlights anything moving so we will focus on it to determine if it is a threat, a meal, or just background noise like a plant in the breeze or a wave on the water.

You could develop computer software to use the same kid of shading and so on, but a computer thinks much much faster than a human brain can on the conscious level. A computer would be able to recognize that the illusion is just an illusion the same way your brain does when you focus your attention on a small area of the optical illusion.

Star Trek TNG came up with a nested optical illusion designed to cause Borg to overload because as they viewed it the optical illusion would require so much processing by the visual software that the system would overload and shut down. I somehow doubt a computer system would do that, fail safe mechanisms would normally cut off any program that is sucking up too many CPU resources unless you are using a WinDoze based operating system.

[JV153]

I'm familiar with some of these - you'll like this website.

http://www.grand-illusions.com/opticali ... ex05.shtml

[Keith_McClary]

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