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Originally Posted by photon
What gets me is how you can't not see the illusion. How some illusions pop back and forth between seeing it one way or the other (you see the dolphins or you don't, the girl spins clockwise or counterclockwise), but this one you can't not see everything as tiny.
I guess it just fascinates me how the brain works and how easy it is too fool the brain with just a few subtle changes to an image.
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The thing that blows my mind about tilt-shift photography is that it has nothing to do with replicating how our eyes work when we look at miniatures, and everything to do with replicating how cameras work when photographing miniatures. When I look at something a few inches infront of my face, I don't get the same soft focus effect that a camera does. We're just so conditioned from looking at photos to understand that certain focus effects mean that something is small, even if we're not aware what causes us to think that it's small.
I'd be curious to see if someone who's never really looked at photography before (someone with complete media deprivation) would look at these photos and see miniatures, or would they just see a blurred photograph. Any cognitive psychologists in the room who have access to individuals who have had media deprivation since birth?