Here is a mask of Charlie Chaplin that rotates. Notice that, no matter how hard you try, the hollow and concave rear of the mask eventually becomes a convex golden face that spins counterclockwise. Pretty cool, give it a try:
Here’s another great optical illusion that will play major tricks on your mind. And if you haven’t seen some of Felice Varini’s work yet, check out this brain art.
Alcohol’s toxic effect on the brain is readily communicated by this MRI scan comparing a normal brain to that of an alcoholic:
As you can see, the alcoholic brain on the right is massively shrunken due to brain cell loss.
Haven’t done a brain art post in a while, so figured I’d put up some pictures of Felice Varini’s incredible work. Note that these images were not ‘photoshopped’, nor do they use painted glass.
Click here to see an animation of a large scale Varini illusion done in a warehouse type setting, and then click here to see the secret behind the amazing effect.
Don’t expect an answer to this puzzle anytime soon….
Just published today on the NASA/JPL website. Kevin Baines, a member of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory team, says:
This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides. We’ve never seen anything like this on any other planet. Indeed, Saturn’s thick atmosphere where circularly-shaped waves and convective cells dominate is perhaps the last place you’d expect to see such a six-sided geometric figure, yet there it is.
From Altariel’s Stumbleupon page:
“A Hole in the Ground” by Seb Przd:
