Iranian mosques are decorated of marvelous ceilings witnesses to centuries of devotion and artistic prowess. On BoredPanda.
Category: Optical illusion
Zoom into the surface
Just at the surface of a 3D fractal volume, happen very astonishing things. Surface detail from subBlue on Vimeo.
Color-blind people have all kinds of difficulties in the world we live in. One proposal has been made to ease their difficulties in a current situation and without any significant negative impact on the rest of the people. Who could oppose that? But why isn’t it around us already?
The creator of the fractal concept, Benoît Mandelbrot, just died. Born in Poland, the great mathematician had both French and American citizenship and inspired millions of mathematicians and artists. Rechercher des fractales sur Google.
If you were not sure that genetics was a science, you needed a controlled experiment. Here is the result of such an experiment:
Wonderbra ad based on pure illusion
This ad for the generosity of a woman bra brand (try repeating this quickly!) is based upon a well-known optical illusion. Will men fall for this one? YouTube link Seen on YLoveIllusions.com.
Zoom into the Mandelbrot set
The fashion of drawing fractals is a memory of the past (it was probably linked to the first appearance of computers able to collate the computing power for the needed calculations and the display capacity for complex images). But the pleasure is all mine to find this HD video which sends us into a Mandelbrot… Read More
Insects + light = movie
flight patterns from Charlie McCarthy on Vimeo. Long exposures of bugs under a street light. music: Telefon Tel Aviv – What’s The Use Of Feet If We Haven’t Got Legs Vimeo link Merci à Pierrick.
You’d believe that our planet is in love. It can be read on its face (on its surface) merely under the form of pretty hearts nicely drawn. 9 other cases. Superb!
Stacey Whaley is a painter using the most modern tools available and depending heavily on the mathematical principles of fractals (those graphical figures that tend to repeat themselves at different scales when you zoom in or zoom out). In most cases, when people follow this path, the result is quite predictable and there are a… Read More
Are you colour-blind like 5% of European male population? This is the question that will receive an answer here. You will even know the exact form of colour-blindness is yours when browsing to test your colour vision. You will have to check little images like the one here and indicate what you see (not everybody… Read More
A very nice set of camouflaged animals. Source: Daily Mail.
Be a beta-tester
If you have the heart of an adventurer, you may be interested to know that Ijust put in beta-test some new websites that I am working on. YLovePhoto.com (site specializing in digital photography) YLoveBigCats.com (about felines and other big cats) YLoveIllusions.com (optical illusions) YWantVisits.com (SEO, traffic optimisation and web site revenue maximization) Your opinion will… Read More
I found a few funny, interesting, or surprising glasses or vases that I wanted to share with you. The first ones are coming with a request to drink responsibly:
The rock band Soulwax created an album with a nice optical illusion for its cover. You will have a move and squint your eyes a little to fully perceive the effect. Source: Neatorama.
Anatomy of an illusion
All the details about a simple optical illusion and what we can learn from it about the inner workings of the human brain.
Where are the shadows? Where is the sun? This simple optical illusion could let you think that MC Escher did not survived to 2008. Source: Erathic Eric via Dump Trumpet.
Do you see me? I see you.
Look closely. The word LIFE is not as slanted as you’d think at first.