1. noname says:

    Cool!

  2. Dallas says:

    Very cool ! Just in time to celebrate the new marijuana laws too!

  3. Uncle Patso says:

    Saw this T-Rex design on National Geographic channel’s Brain Games program.

    Even knowing what the illusion is, I can’t make it look like it really is — as soon as the back of the thing disappears, the illusion is back.

  4. bobbo, the pragmatic existential evangelical anti-theist says:

    Our brains evolved to see the world as it (usually) is. Nothing in nature is constructed the way that T-Rex Head is. Thats why there is so much masking tape.

    Fun to see how our brains work in such a clear demonstrable way. Of further interest–how our brain fools us in ways much more subtle.

    Reality is real. Our understanding of it is a construct.

    • Captain Obvious says:

      Your dirty talk during sex must be masterful.

      • bobbo, the pragmatic existential evangelical anti-theist says:

        Well, you have caught me out. With your nudge, a vagina is as close to the negative angles as exist with the T-Rex head as nature might present. Both will follow you as you move around the room too.

        ……..but I dither.

        • So What? says:

          Interesting, wasn’t is Einstein who said “all things are relative, relatives are all things, all my relatives took all my things.” of course I could be mistaken, it’s a matter of perspective.

  5. orchidcup says:

    Biocentrism

    After the death of his old friend, Albert Einstein said “Now Besso has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me.

    That means nothing. People like us … know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

    New evidence continues to suggest that Einstein was right, death is an illusion.

    Is Death an Illusion?

  6. Sam says:

    I’ve had one for years. Very cool, indeed.

    Here’s a link to the pattern (with ears):

    http://grand-illusions.com/images/articles/opticalillusions/dragon_illusion/dragon.pdf

    • Sam says:

      Guess you need the “www.” part. I thought you had to leave that out? Oh we’ll:

      http://www.grand-illusions.com/images/articles/opticalillusions/dragon_illusion/dragon.pdf

      • Uncle Dave says:

        You need to leave out the www to make a link clickable here on the blog. The link doesn’t work without it, however, because it’s on one of those now-rare domains that require it.

  7. sargasso_c says:

    Something similar of a cat would probably keep pigeons off my lawn.

  8. Mr Diesel says:

    Sort of like the illusion of the nutball in the WH. No matter which way we look we are all screwed.

  9. Mr Diesel says:

    Depends on the engine.

  10. Peppeddu says:

    A little cardboard + some tape + some creativity = 5,000,000 views on YouTube.

    I bet there are a lot of people who spend a lot of money to make videos on YouTube who wish they would have thought the same.

    Smart.


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