Re:Can you make your brain not see this circle illusion?
by teddythetwig on Friday August 04, 2017 @07:48AM
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It has, think about natural camouflage like zebras. It short circuits the predators ability to pick out individual herd members.
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Re:Can you make your brain not see this circle illusion?
by brute on Friday August 04, 2017 @10:48AM
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Minor correction: Predators like lions have no problem distinguishing individual members of a herd. The stripes pattern messes with the way blood-sucking, disease-spreading flies (such as horse flies or tsetse flies) see the world.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kbzwpv/the-reason...