Tin-Zinc and Other Glenair Material Innovations

If that technical whitepaper didn’t get you dizzy… Here are some optical illusions to complete the process!

The Rubin’s Vase illusion occurs when a two-dimensional image contains ambiguous (or bi-stable) forms which reverse with prolonged viewing.

The Scintillating Grid (derived from the Hermann grid) is characterized by dark dots seeming to randomly appear and disappear on white discs at the intersections of a grey grid on a black background.

Kanizsa’s Triangle depicts the “phantom edge phenomenon” in which the brain uses negative space to interpret a complete structure not actually there.

Pinna’s Intertwining Effect: the image appears to be spiraling inward, when in fact the shapes are arranged on concentric circles.

The Penrose Triangle , or the impossible tribar, like

An Impossible Object is a two- dimensional image which instantly and naturally is interpreted by our brain as a three-dimensional object, with “impossible” results.

other “impossible object” illusions, can be depicted in perspective drawings, but cannot exist as a physical object.

QwikConnect • April 2023

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