I hadn't seen this curveball illusion before. Very striking and surprising. I haven't had a chance to look into the theory behind it yet, but it seems to me to suggest something strange about the mapping of visual input into peripheral space.
(Thanks to Paul Hoffman for the pointer.)
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Curveball Illusion
Posted by Eric Schwitzgebel at 12:21 PM
Labels: sense experience
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It seems like the quicker the speed that I set the ball's rotation, the more extreme the angle becomes as it descends. That is interesting.
Eric,
Come along on my death trip.
The Situationist has just made an entry on this illusion.
That is to say:
Perception and Illusion
*perdon*, *Perception and Consciousness*; a tribute to *Dennis Stampe*, if memory serves.
And, I suppose, if it will help *you* I will be a "Nixonite" of *Oxford University Press*: OUP!
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