Dec 13 2020 - Weird Christmas Gifts

 

What would be worth giving at Christmas this year to shake things up? Here are this year's ads on Google.  Redbubble prints on socks, so my brother got socks last year printed with his lily hybrid Showtime.  I wouldn't consider them very wearable, though. This year, the optical illusion shirt shows up all the time in ads.  The optical allusion shirt is amazing - here's the link to see the video HERE.   This would work for a Zoom Christmas. I suggest that it be a long-sleeved shirt so that the muscled arms can be included.  There are lots of choices - maybe this will become the 2020 shirt of the year.  Something to represent the crazy year. This is the sky for a normal snow day.  If the sun comes out the wind comes up and the snow flies off the vines.

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Illusion of the Day

What did you think of yesterday's elephant?  Here is the traditional set of vase/urn figure ground images.  These are the most famous perception images described by Edward Rubin in 1915.  It is known as Rubin's vase.  Here's the colour vs. black and white rendition.       Here's another well-known optic illusion with two renderings of it.   Optical illusions happen in photographs and Seenox.org has a series of articles showing amazingly weird yet funny optical illusions HERE  - and here are a few examples: There is not a convertible in the picture          The girl on the right is not in the air   That's not a man with fancy legs And here is an article from boredpanda with created or found optical illusions HERE.    Here's are a few of them: These seem so interesting.  Each one demands to be looked and our brain works to resolve the illusion. What did we find at Butchart Gardens during our visit?  A worker replacing sod that was yellow from dog pee spots.  Everything stays perfect at Butchart.

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