Exploratorium: Optical Illusions

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This site contains a set of optical illusions designed to show the biases and perception tricks users' minds play on them while looking at different pictures.

Please note that this resource requires Quicktime, or Shockwave.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/explore/staff_picks/optical_illusions

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Optics - Color - General Other Sciences - Chemistry - None	- Informal Education	- Instructional Material = Activity - Audio/Visual = Movie/Animation

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2004 Exploratorium
Keywords:: Colors, Depth Perception, Optical Illusions
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created July 8, 2004 by Matthew Meizlish
Record Updated:: February 13, 2013 by Lyle Barbato
Other Collections:: The Physics To Go

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