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 | Monday, March 9, 2009 at 14:36:32 mst
Comment ID: #1
Name: Sajid
I don't get it :P |
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| Monday, March 9, 2009 at 22:00:13 mst
Comment ID: #2
Name: C Andrew
E-mail: ca4papen(at)mindspring.com
Sajid,
This is probably cultural. The tip off is the picture on the driver's license. It is a rendition of an optical illusion that, depending on where your focus originally lights, will either show a demure young woman or an old crone. They're just doing it in 3D. The two guys at the end are spoofing another popular optical illusion. If you put identical human faces in profile (and in a line drawing format) the negative space between them looks like a vase instead of two mirror image faces. This also fluctuates back and forth depending on your focus point.
Here's a link to the maiden/crone optical illusion. One warning, though. Whatever you see first is very hard to displace, even if you follow the directions at the bottom of the picture.
http://www.grand-illusions.com/opticalillusions/woman/
I usually see the maiden and have to work to see the crone. Maybe that's a pyschological commentary on my outlook. (grin) |
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| Monday, March 9, 2009 at 22:59:31 mst
Comment ID: #3
Name: Paul Lin
E-mail: paul.lin(at)hushmail.com
This kind of optical illusion is used in Gottman's "The Mathematics of Marriage" to explain catastrophic
change. Our mind can perceive one thing which associates with a concept in our memory at the beginning
when we focus on a set of the perceptual data. But when we start to switch our focus on a different
set of perceptual data of the same object, our mind can perceive a completely different thing which
associates with a completely different concept. I think the transition from one percept to another and
from one concept to another is resulted from the reorganization of the activities in our neural net
which causes our mind to switch the "key" for looking up in the "index of concepts" when parametric
changes reach a certain threshold and trigger an event of change. |
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| Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 1:09:09 mst
Comment ID: #4
Name: Tom Rowland
E-mail: trowland08(at)gmail.com
This certainly hits home with me! |
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| Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 16:42:33 mst
Comment ID: #5
Name: brian0918
E-mail: my handle, through gmail
Tom: Are people always trying to stick flowers in you? |
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| Friday, March 13, 2009 at 3:51:20 mst
Comment ID: #6
Name: Tom Rowland
E-mail: trowland08(at)gmail.com
Brian: What an intreguing idea. I was thinking however in terms of how the shift in focus from one aspect of a woman to another aspect makes a lot of difference in whether one approaches her with romance in mind, viz-a-viz some comments I've been making on the Ayn Rand On Matrimony thread. |
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