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Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 06:15:27 PM EST
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Iknew this one .. it is great.. and absolutely icnredible..

i see it both ways. depending ont hem oment ... it is very nice..

but again is about the primary visual cortex... and noone is so stupid to claim that it has to do with something about the right or left brain...

a pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 06:24:13 PM EST
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Well, I guess I am stupid enough... ;(
(Runs away, crying).

"If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it." Lord Brabazon
by Barbara on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 06:30:15 PM EST
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Heh, it's true: the green and red vibrate and confuse the...brain!  So it is a brain thing, but not left/right.

Here's another optical illusion.

And here's one that is definitely (they say) "right brain/left brain".

Hidden Face Illusion - Optical Illusion

Can you find the human face which is hidden in these coffee beans?

Doctors have concluded that if you can find the face in the coffee beans in 3 seconds, the right half of your brain is better developed than most people. If you find the face between 3 seconds and 1 minute, your right half of the brain is developed normally. If you find the face between 1 minute and 3 minutes, then the right half of your brain is functioning slowly and you need to eat more protein. If you have not found the face after 3 minutes, the advice is to look for more of this type of exercise to make that part of the brain stronger!

I'd say it took me about a minute and yes: there really is a face in amongst those beans!

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 06:42:35 PM EST
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there is deep stuff about that.. very deep stuff.. proejction on the visual cortex of higher cortex functions...

it is really amazing research...

I got oa two hour fullt reatment about brain implication of this kind of visual perceptions..a dn the reaction times to them...

And I have also read simialr things ina ntrhopology about presenting the same kind of visual percetpion to different cultures with other learnt parametres of perception...

really amazing

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 06:47:49 PM EST
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Links or book titles or authors!

And your diary about magic, of course.

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 06:53:53 PM EST
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One working in Weizmann.. oo hisname.. gee.. what was his name...Amiram I think....

this is a good way to start..a s good as any other

http://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain/images/ImageGallery.html

or..

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:yAGF13wXIA4J:www.dandavidprize.org/pr/2004_EnglishGrinvald0404. doc+weizmann+institute+brain+research+amiram&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&client=opera

A pleasrue

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Fri Oct 12th, 2007 at 10:55:36 AM EST
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About 20 seconds here...

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
by poemless on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 06:50:29 PM EST
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Here's another colour illusion.  Look at the pink dots and they flash on and off in a clockwise motion.  Look at the cross in the centre and there's a green dot making its way round in a clockwise motion.



Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 06:51:40 PM EST
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The purple/cyan effect is the same effect as the green/red spinning disks. it's shadows in your colour perception

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 07:28:39 PM EST
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as soon as I worked out what I was meant to be looking for POP, although I spent far too long looking for the wrong thing

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 07:16:13 PM EST
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I found it in less than a second. I don't know what this means. I should have been an artist?

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 07:19:44 PM EST
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I think it means you are the reincarnation of a god from one of seven regions.  If you know the bean person--or if you realise that it is, in fact, a picture of you--then you are probably all the gods from all the seven regions.



Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 07:26:51 PM EST
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20 arms would be awesome. I'll pass on the nine heads though, I'm an easy going guy but there would still be too many arguments between myselves.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Fri Oct 12th, 2007 at 03:51:06 AM EST
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ewwww, that is actually quite freaky. Face looking up like that.

Ad astra per aspera
by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 09:30:37 PM EST
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With how many different photos of random coffee-bean "arrangements" will this work?

We are told there's a face hidden, so we find it?

Is everyone seeing the same face?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Oct 12th, 2007 at 02:24:45 AM EST
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I don't see a face after staring at this things for about 5mn. What kind of a face is it? Like a simple smiley, or a real face with 3d features? Where are the eyes?
by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Fri Oct 12th, 2007 at 02:33:30 AM EST
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It's a real face, not a "face shape" made by an arrangement of the beans.

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Fri Oct 12th, 2007 at 03:22:20 AM EST
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Same here. Barbara is giving me a hard time about it.

We have met the enemy, and it is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Oct 13th, 2007 at 05:30:15 AM EST
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Everyone is seeing the same face.  It is the size of 1 coffee bean.

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Fri Oct 12th, 2007 at 03:24:02 AM EST
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Where is it? Could you circle the face and post the pic??
by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Fri Oct 12th, 2007 at 03:32:25 AM EST
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count approx. 5 beans from the lower left corner! :-)
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Oct 12th, 2007 at 03:39:39 AM EST
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Got it! Thanks!!
by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Fri Oct 12th, 2007 at 04:09:50 AM EST
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Start at the bottom row, look at the individual beans, move from bottom left to bottom right, about two inches in you'll find a ball head instead of a bean (in the second row up from the bottom more or less)

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Fri Oct 12th, 2007 at 03:43:07 AM EST
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Then it's rather like Where's Wally? (or Waldo...)

Seeing the damn thing also rather depends on the state of your eyesight and the quality of your screen... Mine are dimmer than they used to be... ;)

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Oct 12th, 2007 at 04:54:48 AM EST
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And indeed, the source of this posts it as an optical illusion, and actually compares it to the game of Where is Waldo?

Only in the comment thread does the poster claim "Doctors have concluded etc...", and gives no source or reference to back the claim.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Oct 12th, 2007 at 05:12:09 AM EST
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Everyone will see the same face, there is only one face in it.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Oct 13th, 2007 at 05:34:44 AM EST
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This was funny! I thought at first it was supposed to put together an imaginary face... I looked for a large face! Then I saw it... great stuff. But instructions should be more precise. ;)


"If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it." Lord Brabazon
by Barbara on Fri Oct 12th, 2007 at 01:07:37 PM EST
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But the point of the exercise is to see how you interpret ambiguous instructions!

We have met the enemy, and it is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Oct 13th, 2007 at 05:33:03 AM EST
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So what does the video tell us about the Face on Mars?

We have met the enemy, and it is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Oct 13th, 2007 at 05:28:59 AM EST
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geeee.. I was talking about the scientists who believe that.. or the people who pushed that... not the people who read it.. actually from a  reader perspective.. it makes perfect sense...

gee.. I should shut up sometimes :)

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 06:45:37 PM EST
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Red and green...

There was a Clash single, Tommy Gun...

Maybe I've got the wrong single, but there was one--I'm sure it was by the Clash--and when you shook the cover the words smeared off the page!



Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 06:32:52 PM EST
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Okay, this is a migraine (or epilepsy) recipe. Have one coming on at the moment (spent way too much time in front of the screen today), but from what I gather they are turning all in different directions. What do you see?

"If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it." Lord Brabazon
by Barbara on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 06:32:18 PM EST
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I see wheels turning, but if I watch a wheel it stops...while all the others turn...sneaky!

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 06:54:56 PM EST
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It's not turning, it's breathing. Aaaargh, it's noticed me. It's coming out of the scr.......

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 06:35:31 PM EST
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  1.  When I just move my eyes over it, the ones that seem to be moving are going counter-clockwise.  Then they don't.  Then they do.  Then I go cross-eyed and want to vomit.

  2.  But if I look right at it, they stop moving altogther.

  3.  When I try to ignore it, it begins breathing and writhing and staring at me like an 18-headed monster.


"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
by poemless on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 06:40:53 PM EST
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My GOD!  IT'S ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by ATinNM on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 08:52:08 PM EST
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