But unlike Nikolais and Pilobolus at their best, Momix rarely inhabits the realm of the poetic, that magical place where the illusion takes on a life of its own to become something wonderful and strange.
(Slater hopes to address this question in another version of the experiment, by using brain imaging to see what neurological processes are triggered when the voice illusion takes effect — a tricky proposition, since most scanning techniques require that the subject be immobile).
(Slater hopes to address this question in another version of the experiment, by using brain imaging to see what neurological processes are triggered when the voice illusion takes effect a tricky proposition, since most scanning techniques require that the subject be immobile).
It's one of those optical illusion takes.
That is, it predicts that the illusion will be stronger when people are more personally involved, but does not attempt to explain how the illusion takes place (see Matute & Vadillo, 2012, for discussion).
When she and John returned to London in 1969, her romantic illusions took a battering.
This comes naturally to people and, barring certain optical illusions, takes no time at all as well as precious little conscious effort.
There are others whose illusions take on the lightness of a kilobyte.
Photographic Illusions Take You Inside The Surreal World Of Logan Zillmer.
Allen's more recent Slapcomp posts find him venturing into optical illusions, taking moving 3D graphics and mapping them onto everyday reality.
