A fascinating look at floating shapes and the visual illusion behind them, exploring how movement, contrast, and perception work together to trick the eye. #VisualIllusion #OpticalArt #CreativeDesign ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development of computational models inspired by the brain's layered organization, also ...

For the propulsive new film Marty Supreme, costume designer Miyako Bellizzi had to adopt a dream-big mindset worthy of its protagonist to consider the question: Who is the man Marty Mauser wants to ...

An illusion is when we see and perceive an object that doesn't match the sensory input that reaches our eyes. In the case of the image below, the sensory input is four Pac Man–like black figures. But ...

Fear in horror games often begins when you first step into a world the developers created. Before anything moves, a single shadow can create a setting that tightens your stomach. That slow, quiet ...

The patterns we carry into adulthood often have their roots in the roles we played in our childhood families. These roles developed as intelligent survival strategies — ways to navigate our family’s ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. In molecular dynamics (MD), the accessible time scales are limited by the necessity to ...

Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 511442, China Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Technique and Equipment for Macromolecular ...

The Nantong Banyao kite has a unique shape. Compared with other kites, it is larger in size, flat like a board and equipped with a whistle. When it is released, the kite makes rhythmic sounds, which ...

Our brains begin to create internal representations of the world around us from the first moment we open our eyes. We perceptually assemble components of scenes into recognizable objects thanks to ...