Chapter 6 - Illusion Blog

For this assignment i practiced on the following tutorials: Motion Induced Blindness
Snake Illusion Ad Lib
Motion After Effect
Eye Jitter
The Enigma
Pyramid Illusion
Contrast Constancy
and Hering Illusion

Through out all of these i really enjoyed the motion after effect and hering illusion one the best! I learned through all of this that your eyes can never stand still. Even though they are focusing on one object they may flutter or twitch after they get fatigued from looking at the same thing for so long. In doing this it creates illusions and we begin to see things that arent really even there.
It really surprised me in the motion after effect the way the frozen picture looked after staring at the lines for so long. You stared at these black and white moving squares and then suddenly a still picture appeared and your eyes made it seem as if that picture were moving and expanding right in front of you. It was really crazy! It definately made me think to myself that things are really not as they may appear. After doing the Hering Illusion i really look at things differently. The red lines on all the graphic looked as if they were crooked, then when you put the mouse over the graphic it disappeared to show the red lines really were straight the entire time. After seeing that it made me want to look at everything entirely different because i know now that not everything is as it appears. You need to look deeper into it that what you see first glance!