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How Japanese Floating Illusions Reverse-Engineer What We See

By George Musser · Nautilus · June 2017
How Japanese Floating Illusions Reverse-Engineer What We See
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"The Arais do not merely dissect illusions, but can generate them, taking an image that looks boringly normal and making subtle changes, to color and contrast, to fool our brains. If you don’t know how something works, break it. Science is built on creative destruction: Much of what neuroscientists know of the brain, they know…"

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