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Best Optical Illusion of the Year Contest

Posted by samzenpus on from the stare-at-the-center dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The 7th annual 'Best illusion of the year contest' was held by the Neural Correlate Society last week in Florida, and it featured 10 fantastic visual illusions selected from a pool of over 150 submissions. The site has demos of the illusions that made the finals, with brief explanations about what each illusion tells us about the visual system. Some might be important for the design of video displays and animations."

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  1. And the winner is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The imaginary webpage!

  2. Quicktime? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's no fucking way I'm installing that fucking Apple shit on my PC, no matter how cool the optical illusions are.

    1. Re:Quicktime? by dintech · · Score: 2

      Agreed, Quicktime player has to be one of the worst things ever, irrespective of the codec.

    2. Re:Quicktime? by jellomizer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yea man. I am sticking to Adobe flash.

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    3. Re:Quicktime? by bondsbw · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Very true for Windows. On a Mac it works fine.

      Not that that is at all surprising... but I am a little surprised Apple doesn't make its Windows version better, seeing as Quicktime is the only computer-related Apple product many people come in contact with. It made me think poorly of them for years, until I actually used a Mac and found it to be better.

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    4. Re:Quicktime? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It's at least 100 times better, which says a lot about Quicktime.

    5. Re:Quicktime? by smelch · · Score: 5, Insightful

      iPads, iPods and iPhones are not computer related, they're consumer electronics. iTunes is crummy software, Quicktime is crummy software. If you don't have an Apple COMPUTER you would think Apple only writes crummy software. If they write crummy software, why would you use their OS? It's probably crummy.

      Not that I believe that, but to a layperson it might appear that way.

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    6. Re:Quicktime? by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Insightful

      On the one when you're comparing Flash on Windows to Quicktime on Windows. If you're making the comparison on OSX it goes the other way. However, Quicktime literally runs on nothing but Windows and MacOS, so Flash wins big in lots of other places, too since Quicktime doesn't bother to show up. If you want to reach the absolute maximum number of device you use Flash. On Windows it uses acceleration well and on Linux with nVidia we also get acceleration that brings flash into the realm of reason. As a user of contemporary hardware there is no other reasonable choice for Linux unless you don't want to use your GPU for anything.

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  3. Last Year's Winner by nharmon · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAXm0dIuyug

  4. Speaking of images nobody'll believe... by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yesterday I ran across a visual I had to blink a few times to comprehend... Linky...

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  5. Sony's Entry? by AwooOOoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did Sony's firewall's make the cut for best optical illusion?

  6. Slashdot Insurance by phatphoton · · Score: 2

    Amazon/other cloud vendors would make a killing selling "Slashdot Protection" like insurance for bandwidth. If your site gets slashdotted, you're guaranteed a certain period of time of increased bandwidth for a nominal monthly fee.

    1. Re:Slashdot Insurance by ais523 · · Score: 2

      It's a one-liner (the shortest known algorithm to write an addition without using the standard library), not a complete program; it does nothing by itself. (I had to golf it right down to fit it in Slashdot's sig limits). It's not really recommended to do it quite like that in production code, as it uses a rather significant line number (1), and leaks all over your operand overloads without scoping them properly. It works in C-INTERCAL, and I think probably CLC-INTERCAL too, although it makes use of some relatively new additions to the language.

      // C-INTERCAL comaintainer; see http://c.intercal.org.uk/ for a list of relevant C-INTERCAL links

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  7. slashdotted by Thornburg · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apparently you need a 'mirror' to view these optical illusions...

  8. Re:What's the illusion here? by phatphoton · · Score: 2

    http://lsc.univ-evry.fr/~eurohaptics/upload/cd/papers/f46.pdf - explains it fairly well

  9. A great example by geekoid · · Score: 3, Interesting

    of how the mind will make leaps and conclusion with minimal input.
    Optical illusions are a great opportunity to teach people how to think rational about something that on initial view doesn't make sense or breaks reality.

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  10. Re:Slashdotted by oscarwumpus · · Score: 4, Informative

    Perhaps here: http://www.newscientist.com/special/best-new-illusions-2011

  11. It would be nice to have animated .GIFs instead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd rather see these as animated .GIFs instead of Flash. sigh... oh well...
    (yes, the 1990s called, they want their animation back...ha ha)

  12. Look at the left hand.... by Beer_Smurf · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Best Optical Illusion of the Year is going on right now
    Tornados and Obama meeting with the queen hides discussion of the Patriot Act from the media.