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Re:Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages by yutopia on Friday January 15, 2021 @07:13AM (#25789996)
This is super interesting:

http://en.ritsumei.ac.jp/news/detail/?id=278

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0034...

Apparently he showed his "rotating snake" image to a neural network trained to predict upcoming video frames, it also "saw" the illusory motions.

Re:Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages by nr2x on Thursday January 14, 2021 @09:56PM (#25786429)
I can’t believe he’s still updating this, thanks so much for the link. Been years since I saw this. The guy is straight-up hacking your visual processing system!
Re:Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages by xenocratus on Friday January 15, 2021 @10:00AM (#25791679)
Re:Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages by nneonneo on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:15PM (#25786571)
I would also recommend following Akiyoshi on Twitter (https://twitter.com/AkiyoshiKitaoka) so you can have a daily dose of visual hackery on your Twitter feed :)
Re:Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages by yboris on Friday January 15, 2021 @11:16AM (#25792488)
Re:Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages by Aardwolf on Friday January 15, 2021 @05:56AM (#25789353)
http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/saishin63e.html

"Illusory yellow is observed around hearts."

Had to zoom to be convinced that there really are indeed no #ffff00 pixels in there

This would be an interesting way to create the illusion of fifth color in 4-color CGA

Re:Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages by TonyTrapp on Friday January 15, 2021 @05:41AM (#25789246)
Seen many of those countless times on the internet without credits. Great to see the original source, thanks for sharing!
Re:Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages by systemvoltage on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:17AM (#25787278)
Love the classic professorial web design.
Re:Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages by miahi on Friday January 15, 2021 @03:17AM (#25788286)
I remember stumbling on this page in 2003-2004. When I saw the title here I thought 'I hope it's the same' - and it is! It looks exactly like it was back then[1]. Love it!

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20030202031646/http://www.ritsum...

Re:Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages by skc on Friday January 15, 2021 @02:31AM (#25788042)
What's curious for me is that I've visited these illusions before in the past and over time I've noticed that I've gradually stopped experiencing a growing number of them.
Re:Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages by jonhohle on Friday January 15, 2021 @11:26AM (#25792591)
When seeing lists of optical illusions, I never see anything regarding Edward Land's work regarding the perception of color in red/white images[0]. With readily available HDR displays this may no longer be relevant, but still interesting.

0 - https://web.archive.org/web/20080914012938/http://land.t-a-y...

Re:Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages by shmerl on Friday January 15, 2021 @02:46AM (#25788116)
Re:Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages by kirchhoff on Friday January 15, 2021 @05:31AM (#25789178)
Another site in a similar vein, which is worth a mention.

https://michaelbach.de/ot/

Re:Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages by kristopolous on Friday January 15, 2021 @05:26AM (#25789149)
I like the hit counter with 129 million at the bottom
Re:Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages by ku-man on Friday January 15, 2021 @01:00AM (#25787538)
I am sure I am not the only one but some of the illusions do not work for me, and some only work after reading the description. Does your brain needs to be trained to 'get' the illusion?
Re:Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages by toyg on Friday January 15, 2021 @09:17AM (#25791172)
Vision is deeply entangled with pattern recognition, so it makes sense: feeding data into your brain about what it's expected to detect will help with detecting it. It's counterintuitive, but in the end vision is not really the low-level signal we think it is, but rather a pretty high-level conceptualization.
Re:Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages by flyinghamster on Friday January 15, 2021 @09:06AM (#25791047)
I've noticed that as well - but others just about leap off the page for me. Also, some only seem to work at certain distances, or if I am moving, or if I'm scrolling the page.