Katrina Miller in The New York Times:
Take a look at this video of a waiting room. Do you see anything strange?
Perhaps you saw the rug disappear, or the couch pillows transform, or a few ceiling panels evaporate. Or maybe you didn’t. In fact, dozens of objects change in this video, which won second place in the Best Illusion of the Year Contest in 2021. Voting for the latest version of the contest opened on Monday.
Illusions “are the phenomena in which the physical reality is divorced from perception,” said Stephen Macknik, a neuroscientist at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn. He helps run the contest with his colleague and spouse, Susana Martinez-Conde, a neuroscientist at the same institution and the primary organizer of the contest.
More here.
Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.