Friday, June 18, 2010

Why Our Brains Are Fooled by Illusions

 

The short answer is that our brains are programmed to see the world in three dimensions instead of two. There are more details at Discover magazine, as well as a gallery of colorful optical illusions. For example, these two Rubik's cubes do NOT have the same colors. The "blue" squares in the left picture and the "yellow" squares in the right picture are gray.



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"Good things come to those who wait, but only things left behind by those who hustle."
— Abraham Lincoln

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