Surprising perceptual illusions

[Overnight]

Update: the video of the moon in post #17 was beautiful but Snopes says not real...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/giant-moon-blocking-sun-arctic/#:~:text=A video showing a gigantic moon rolling across,at an unnaturally fast speed across the sky.

I don't want to have to say I told you so, but I told you so.

 

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Cats are fooled by the same perceptual illusions that we are:

 

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Another one that didn't seem to disconcert the cats too much...

 

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Hmmm... the bars do appear to be black and white when I zoom in closely, but they look red and white when zoomed out.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1646498522374742016

 

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Well done...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1657358780709871618

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1656403808489213952

 

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My sense of the scale of sizes of the biggest things out there was just an illusion.

https://twitter.com/x/status/806210393790185472

 

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WTH... I had no idea that "Zero Shadow Day" was a real thing.

Not an illusion...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1657643930001850368

Explained here:

 

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This is a strange one because of the green color that appears...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1661039394592026624

 

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I didn't see much movement here... will interpret that as a good sign.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1661866953814704129