Comments on: Turning wheel illusion http://www.starchamber.com/2003/07/turning-wheel-illusion.html Ned Gulley's Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:48:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Ned http://www.starchamber.com/2003/07/turning-wheel-illusion.html#comment-193 Ned Tue, 05 Aug 2003 04:56:51 +0000 http://starchamber.com/?p=663#comment-193 Maybe there was a bird with feathers like this that was dangerous even though it stayed very still. Generations of evolution taught us: "Beware the Twitchy-Bird!" The effect is reminiscent of the gray blobs you see in the Hermann grid illusion (<a href="http://dragon.uml.edu/psych/hgrid.html)." rel="nofollow">http://dragon.uml.edu/psych/hgrid.html).</a> Similarly one can imagine dangerous translucent gray blobs that hung out at noirish intersections causing trouble for our progenitors. Maybe there was a bird with feathers like this that was dangerous even though it stayed very still. Generations of evolution taught us: “Beware the Twitchy-Bird!” The effect is reminiscent of the gray blobs you see in the Hermann grid illusion (http://dragon.uml.edu/psych/hgrid.html). Similarly one can imagine dangerous translucent gray blobs that hung out at noirish intersections causing trouble for our progenitors.

]]> By: JMike http://www.starchamber.com/2003/07/turning-wheel-illusion.html#comment-192 JMike Mon, 04 Aug 2003 17:15:08 +0000 http://starchamber.com/?p=663#comment-192 Wow. You sort of have to wonder whether this is evolutionary advantage or evolutionary side-effect (sort of a visual sickle-cell anemia). Wow.

You sort of have to wonder whether this is evolutionary advantage or evolutionary side-effect (sort of a visual sickle-cell anemia).

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