The sun lights things from above, so our brains are used to seeing shadows appear below convex things and above concave things. It's easy to trick your brain by rotating a map or photo upside down.
This video explains why craters sometimes look like hills in photographs
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Computer finds faces in grains of sand
In artists Erwin Driessens and Maria Verstappen's installation "Pareidolia," a computer vision system uses facial recognition software to find faces in grains of sand. Of course, "pareidolia" is a trick… READ THE REST
If you rotate this photo of a spaceship, it looks like a car in the water
it's a spaceship until you see the picture upside down. This is cool – someone took a photo of UFO hovering over the scene of an accident. If you rotate… READ THE REST
These boxes aren't rotating. It's an optical illusion. Really.
ついに立体的に動いて見える錯視が完成しました。キューブが回転して見えますね?止まっています pic.twitter.com/nyyWdr5O1E — じゃがりきん (@jagarikin) February 14, 2020 On Twitter, @jagarikin posted this fantastic example of the "reverse phi illusion." Press play above. The boxes aren't actually rotating. I promise.… READ THE REST
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Dessert cheesecake wafer bear claw fruitcake. Fruitcake chupa chups donut candy canes marzipan. Apple pie sweet roll tart chocolate cake macaroon marshmallow carrot cake gummi bears sweet. Pastry sugar plum… READ THE REST
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We all know vital information about ourselves and our private digital accounts can be compromised by cybercriminals. However, many would be frightened to know just how compromised they and their… READ THE REST
The Bite Helper removes the itch of a mosquito bite in seconds
While mosquitoes have certainly earned their title as the deadliest animal on earth, their impact on most of our lives is usually a lot less consequential. But even though they… READ THE REST