This year I was asked to participate in the Illusion of the year contest and it was a blast! There were a bunch of great illusions and I had no idea who was going to win it until the votes were counted. There's even some great video of me acting in one of the presentations. Anyway here's a video of one of the contestants using me - can you guess who I am?
Keep reading for a video of the 1st place winner and links for the 2nd and 3rd place winners!
Here's the first place illusion:
And 2nd Place and 3rd Place. Both totally worth watching on neuralcorrelates.org.
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For all of you Illusion Junkies out there:
**** THE FOURTH ANNUAL BEST VISUAL ILLUSION OF THE YEAR CONTEST****
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com
Last week's Casual Friday study was inspired by a recently-discovered illusion which showed that sound could influence what people percieve visually.
If you're like many regulars to ScienceBlogs you probably found the cool Purple Nurple optical illusion over at Omni Brain.
Photo: Edmund E. Kasaitis.
There's even some great video of me acting in one of the presentations.