Wonders of the human mind...

El Banana · Post by **El Banana** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 1:07 am

DOn't worry about the technobabble.

If anything, it's a good excercise to counteract the usual banalities found here.

Savia · Post by **Savia** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:50 am

danielwang wrote:
El Banana wrote:
danielwang wrote:Optical illsuion. Similar to one seen in a certain episode of «Rurouni Kenshin»: a parsing errorm is inserted into the image to make your mind try to readjust the parity of the image.
Elaborate.
the human mind has a natural ability to parse images into motion vectors, then correct parities and compare them against movements detected in the organ behind your ear... indeed, dizziness is often caused by stressing the muscles of your eyes when trying to focus on a dynamic object.

Don't worry if you don't understand what parities are. Remove the buzzwords and you'll see the key word: correct. If you see a bunch of straight lines and one crooked one, your mind wil assume you have a vision problem and automatically transform the images to that the line appears to be normal, without bothering the rest of the data. That's right, your brain actually makes it up for you.

The spinning illusion stops as soon as you make sure to line each line up and provide a reference to focus on. Such as modifying the geometry of the radial shapres into expanded rectangles, or adding a grid.

So you're referring to the episode where Hannya's striped outfit gives the illusion of his arms being shorter than they actually are?

danielwang · Post by **danielwang** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 3:18 pm

Yes.

Although if the fight had occured in my office, it probably wouldn't have worked so well: one of my walls, turned into a magnetic dry erase, has blue and black grid lines.

Hold on.. I'm doing an experiment to see if my mind will try to correct an angular parsong error...

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 4:29 pm

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht
the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe.
Fcuknig amzanig huh?

J-0080 · Post by **J-0080** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 4:42 pm

Dannywilson wrote:Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht
the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe.
Fcuknig amzanig huh?

I could read that just fine......it must be true!

J-0080.

KawaiiYume4o8 · Post by **KawaiiYume4o8** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:37 pm

Dannywilson wrote:Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht
the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe.
Fcuknig amzanig huh?

Sweet Jesus! Word gets around freakin' fast!!! I quit!!!

Jim Hawkings21122 · Post by **Jim Hawkings21122** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:43 pm

Dannywilson wrote:Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht
the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe.
Fcuknig amzanig huh?

Tis fcuknig azamnig Iedend!

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:50 pm

Dannywilson wrote:Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht
the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe.
Fcuknig amzanig huh?

STOP MAKING ME ILLITERATE!