Questions On The Checker Shadow Illusion

Have you ever had the scary or disconcerting experience of seeing a human-like shadowy form nearby you that later disappeared? Afterward, your mind may have tried to rationalize away what you saw as just a trick of the light, a case of jittery nerves, or just your imagination. But deep down inside, you feel that you have just seen a shadow person. What are shadow people? They are just as real as you and me, because they have been experienced by people all around the world. Many first-hand accounts of those who have witnessed or had experiences with shadow people can testify without a doubt that they are NOT just your imagination.

A strange loop, Hofstadter claims, comes about when a sufficiently powerful cognitive system is able to twist its perception back on itself so that it can observe itself in the way that it observes things in its environment. The result of this strange loop is that the cognitive system perceives what Hofstadter terms “downward causality”, and this in turn reinforces the concept of I-ness, self-awareness, or consciousness.

To begin with, the definition of shadow is very important to this story. Shadow as a noun means a dark figure or likeness cast upon the ground, but it can also be a

Ever see a movie poster that says “based on a true story”? How about books? Well, both films, as well as novels, tend to exaggerate events to make storylines more compelling and exciting for the audience. In the movie Catch Me If You Can the main character, Frank Abagnale Jr., poses as a high school student writing an article and gets information from a pilot. The inaccuracy in that scene, compared to real life, is that Frank asked the questions on the phone, and not in person. Other parts of the film were inaccurate as well, such as Frank seeing his parents again, knowing who the agent chasing him is and interacting with, and more. With this wide range of inaccuracies comes a list of pure facts. The main events

The illusions she constructs focus on how they are percieved. In one peice she created a structure that never looks repeated and in another she takes a ‘cube’ and makes a form that looks competely different from what the oberserver would percieve as

- The Shadows of Reality - The Shadows of Reality We are like the people in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” The people chained to the cave were forced to look at projections and shadows that were cast upon the wall. Because th...[ view ]

This was comparable to the shadows that were seen on the

Introduction Audiences have at all times throughout history been amazed by illusions performed for them for the purpose of entertainment by the means of “magicians.” Some of these magicians include David Copperfield, who made the Statue of Liberty disappear, Harry Houdini, who was most famous for his escape tricks, and Robert Houdin, who would “read” the audience’s mind. In spite of the fact that many of these magicians appear to have done their magic through some supernatural force, in reality, the magicians use their sleight of hand in order to change the perspective of the audience. According to the article, “Magic as a Cooperative Deceit,” the author states that magic is an attempt to change the belief of the audience that something out

A human shadow, in its most basic form, requires three things: exposure to a light source, a person, and a surface to cast the shadow onto. A shadow’s form is entirely dependent on the person creating the shadow, and its light source; it can move, shrink, stretch, and stay still, based off of those movements made by its creator and the respective position of the light. But what is a shadow that does not have a creator, or person, blocking the light beams from reaching the desired surface? And how does one’s perception of a shadow change when viewing a shadow of this type? On the morning August 6th, 1945, the thermal radiation emitted from the nuclear bomb “Little Boy” ripped through the city of Hiroshima, immediately killing approximately

Depending on the art, art is a representation of the visual, or the natural world, which light and shadow give perspective on how far things are, it’s even the same with art. In the book “The Perspective of Shadows: The history of the Theory of Shadow Projection” by Thomas Kaufmann states, “The projection of shadows is a problem that plagued artists and art theorist of the Renaissance. Leonardo himself an artist was also plagued by this issue.

In our day to day life, if we want to make sure if something we saw is “real”, we would most likely to ask the person next to us: “Hey, are you seeing what I’m seeing?”. Being able to communicate, we always seek confirmation from others, but how do we know that we all see the same thing? In this EPQ, I will be exploring the individual differences in our perception and how to test

Professor Bach’s illusions and visual phenomena are very amazing, they make me dizzy, headache and they could trick our eyes. I have been exploring all of the illusions and they all driving me crazy but I found that “Leaning Tower Illusion” and Thompson’s “Thatcher Illusion” are interested to me and I hope you , too. So I decided to talk about these two illusions.

Creating hand shadows on a wall is a pastime that has entertained young and old alike for generations. Now the art of hand shadows is made easy in this volume, a combination of two wonderful Victorian novelty books. By following the clear visual instructions (a full-page illustration of each subject shows both the shadow and the hand position that forms it), shadow shapers will be able to make a bird take flight, a duck quack, Toby the dog wag his tail, and more. With a little patience and practice, anyone can learn to make these and 30 additional figures, including a deer, camel, bunny, bull's head, Shakespeare, grandpa, an elephant, and more. Soon you'll be able to invent your own designs. Parents, teachers, and older brothers and sisters

Perceptions shape our world. We see the world through our eyes and we constantly create perceptions. Even though we usually think of our visual perceptions as reality, yet they are not always as they are perceived. Moreover, we humans make perceptions that are quite psychologically and neurologically constructed and powerfully driven and influenced by a number of factors. We make perceptions based on, for example, contextual factors, on expectations, on our own individual and past experiences, and of course, what we happen to be paying attention to. But it is a fact that in the fashion of how we see the world our perceptions oftentimes oddly do not correspond with what can be physically measured. Therefore, rather than reality,

White’s illusion helps demonstrate how context affects our senses. In the image below, there are two identical grey rectangles, one with black stripes over it and another with white. Rectangle B looks lighter to us, because compared to the black grating than it’s lying over, grey is a very light colour and vice versa for rectangle A, so our minds choose to believe that rectangle B must be lighter.