Couldn't reproduce Dan's illusion. But I _can_ remember the sixties ... WFL On 5/26/17, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
I was looking at this photo of a Koosh ball:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koosh_ball#/media/File:KOOSH.png <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koosh_ball#/media/File:KOOSH.png>
from about a foot away from my 27" computer screen.
Closing one eye, I moved my head in a very small circle while remaining a foot away: just a little to the right, then above, then to the left, then below (rinse, lather, repeat) of dead center on the Koosh ball — and while doing so, have my gaze cycle around a circle on the screen centered at the center of the ball's image. (The screen circle is roughly the nearest screen point to my head at a given moment.)
The result: a persuasive illusion that the image is changing slightly due to parallax, that is, depending on the varying positions of the eye as it moves in a circle.
Question: Is this a known illusion? Does it generalize beyond Koosh balls?
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