Well_Worth_A_Read, 1 month ago to horror

This is kinda cool and kinda creepy.

1. Stare at the red dot on the girl’s nose for 30 seconds
2. Turn your eyes towards the wall/ceiling or somewhere else on a plain surface
3. Keep blinking your eyes quickly.
   #opticalillusions #freaky
   @horror

slcw, 3 months ago to pareidolia

I am extremely suspicious of claims that particular #opticalIllusions reveal some aspect of your #personality. Humans are #pattenRecognition machines with tendencies for #apophenia and #pareidolia. It is in our nature to seek out patterns in noise, and to recognize faces in random data. I'd be interested in actual studies that establish a link between these phenomena, and an individual's personality, but I suspect they don't exist.

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/1870456/optical-illusion-kindhearted-or-goal-orientated/

markmccaughrean, 4 months ago to Astro

Interesting 🤨

Betelgeuse looked particularly orange tonight compared to Rigel’s blue, more so than normal I thought 🟠🔵

I wonder if the nearby Moon was bright enough to trigger the cones & their colour vision more strongly than they would be if there was no moonlight?

Or maybe this is all just delusional hooey 🤷‍♂️🤪

#Astrodon #Astronomy #Photography #Orion #OpticalIllusions

juandesant, 5 months ago to random

TIL about ImageJ.JS 1, a JS transcompiled version of ImageJ.

I did it because I was looking for a way to illustrate today’s APOD 2 image, and I thought that a profile would illustrate it very clearly.

Below you can find some screenshots of ImageJ.JS in action running on iPadOS 17. The Alt-text includes proper descriptions and captions for them.

#ImageJ #ImageJJS #OpticalIllusions #ImageProfile