Originally published at: View Van Gogh's Starry Night after staring at an optical illusion | Boing Boing
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You’re twistin’ my melons, man!
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Omni Magazine, May, 1981. The article said cut this out and put it on a turntable, stare at it for a bit then look at something, like the back of your hand. I was at Jonathan Sheldon’s place when we did this, looked at our hands, and freaked the F out.
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It is, or at least bears similarities to effects I’ve seen myself under such circumstances. Helped me understand that much of what we think of as plain vision is constructed by our brains, which normally do their best to compensate for things like moving your eyes, to keep the visual shapes of things constant despite the new angles you are looking at them from.
Had that very issue! We kept our disc (which we had mounted on an old LP) at the school library, tucked into a Charlie Pride album. We spent many lunches watching the walls boil…
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