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3-10-2007 12:57 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d012129e-3fab-4895-b9f2-1ed6e68e7767/5BD8ABD5-03BF-4BC4-A9E1-7438BFF37F74/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/opticalillusion.html" href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/opticalillusion.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.artlex.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/opticalillusion.html"><P><FONT size="-1" face="Arial"><FONT face="Arial"><IMG width="71" height="89" border="0" align="left" alt="o" src="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../Images/initials/o.sm.GIF" /></FONT><FONT size="-2" face="Arial" color="#e6c3d8">o</FONT><B><FONT size="+3" face="Arial">ptical illusion</FONT></B><FONT size="+1" face="Arial">
- </FONT><FONT size="+1" face="Arial" color="#000000">An <A href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../I.html#anchor4080622" set="yes"><FONT size="+1" face="Arial">image</FONT></A><FONT size="+1" face="Arial"></FONT> that deceives a person, leading to a misinterpretation of its <A href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../Me.html#anchor7714039"><FONT size="+1" face="Arial">meaning</FONT></A>. Optical illusions can be found in <A target="frame169270" href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../n/nature.html"><FONT size="+1" face="Arial">nature</FONT></A> as well as in <A href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../a/artquotations.html"><FONT size="+1" face="Arial">art</FONT></A>. Their strengths rely upon various assumptions in which humans  <A href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../Pas.html#anchor1014158"><FONT size="+1" face="Arial">perceive</FONT></A> <A href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../O.html#anchor5714059"><FONT size="+1" face="Arial">optical</FONT></A> <A href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../Pf.html#anchor3012158"><FONT size="+1" face="Arial">phenomena</FONT></A>.</FONT><FONT size="+1" face="Arial" color="#333333">
</FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/opticalillusion.html"><P><FONT size="-1" face="Arial"><FONT size="+1" face="Arial">There are </FONT><FONT face="Arial"><FONT size="+1">several classic optical illusions. One is an </FONT></FONT><FONT size="+1" face="Arial"><A href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../Al.html#anchor1123458">alternating figure</A> variously called a magic cube or a Necker cube (Louis Necker, a Swiss crystallographer, first published his analysis of this design in 1832):  the <A href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../W.html#anchor919359"><FONT size="+1" face="Arial">wireframe</FONT></A> <A href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../Cp.html#anchor1873233"><FONT size="+1" face="Arial">cube</FONT></A> in the <IMG width="11" height="9" border="0" alt="see thumbnail below" src="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../Images/arrows/down_arrow.red.GIF" />center  below. Which of its sides is nearest to you? Is it the one made solidly green on the cube to the left or is it the green side on the cube to the right, or is there no nearest side at all? </FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/opticalillusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.artlex.com/img/00125397-9D35-4B0B-9A16-06EA0C2AF97E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/opticalillusion.html"><P><FONT size="-1" face="Arial"><FONT size="+1" face="Arial"><IMG width="11" height="9" border="0" alt="see thumbnail below" src="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../Images/arrows/down_arrow.red.GIF" />Here is an "impossible" version pictured with a high degree of <A href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../r/realism.html" set="yes">realism</A>. The two <A href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../Pm.html#anchor2012158">points</A> where the <A href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../Li.html#anchor4580622">linear</A> <A href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../E.html#anchor2015925">edges</A> must <A href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../Or.html#anchor5714839">overlap</A> have been purposely confused. The resulting <A  href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../f/figure.html">figure</A> produces </FONT><FONT size="+1" face="Arial"></FONT><FONT size="+1" face="Arial">an even more jarring <A href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../Fi.html#anchor2500611">figure-ground</A> dilemma, likely to be <A href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/../ij/interpret.html">interpretted</A> as humorous or upsetting. </FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/o/opticalillusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.artlex.com/img/36FA6492-BD99-42F3-B6A0-801C19031F62" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5BD8ABD5-03BF-4BC4-A9E1-7438BFF37F74/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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