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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Truly Amazing Hypnotic Animations

Remember in the 90′s (and even some sites today!) when websites featured lame, cheap and tacky animated GIF images? Well this collection is anything but lame, cheap or tacky. Davidope (dvdp) is the creative director and founder of the design atelier volll. When I first came across some of dvdp’s work I was absolutely amazed at these hypnotic and mesmorising animated GIF images. Dvdp is planning a big colorful site but until now you can find a daily dose of inspiration at his Visual Chinatown over at Tumblr.

Have you eyes recovered yet..?

Want some more?

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Maxblaster, a Flashlight That Can Reached a Moone

One morning, standing in front of Ralf Ottow the bathroom mirror when I saw the bronzed forehead. The tanning - got his hand on the flashlight and the skin is not fried.

He was 8 after 45 - year - old Dutch engineer their own built-in optical light, but the new 38-10000 - candlepower creation, Maxablaster, more like a miniature star. To start, Ottow built-in powerful commercial flashlight and close spacing of the gas is very hot plasma between two electrodes - the center of the lamp to produce light by creating a space filled with mercury arc bulb, to deprive said. Bright, more focus, as well as the results bimui it (the sun, the initial test of the product), the more ultraviolet light kick. So he designed a special reflective coating, ground, and coated glass window to add a trap ultraviolet light and nuts.

POWER: Thebulb is typically used for lab equipment and is designed to run off an outlet, so Ottow had the difficult task of packing together 54 off-the-shelf nickel-metal-hydride batteries. To regulate the current, he added a ballast.

PERFORMANCE: Some flashlights pump out more light, but the Maxblaster has a much greater reach because the mercury arc lamp creates a tightly focused beam. Ottow says he once illuminated a ferry boat some nine miles away.

SAFETY: Ottow installed a strong glass window in case the pressure shatters the bulb and gave it an extra coating to block harmful UV rays. He also added a mechanism so the light needs a key to operate.

Optical Illusions And Pictures

Kanizsa Triangle

In the accompanying figure a white equilateral triangle is perceived... Kanizsa Triangle

Albert Einstein Marilyn Monroe Illusion

When you look at this picture close range you see Albert Einstein.

Now stand up and take several steps back, roughly 15 feet away,
It will become... Marilyn Monroe.

Realistic Dice Illusion

As you look at these dice, try to determine if they are standing up, or laying flat. Realistic Dice Illusion

It seems as if they are doing both.

Sphere Size Illusion

A visual illusion of two spheres. Does one appear to be larger than the other?

Both of the spheres are the same size.

The Lilac Chaser aka Pac-Man Illusion

Lilac chaser is a visual illusion, also known as the Pac-Man illusion. It consists of 12 lilac (or pink, rose or magenta), blurred disks arranged in a circle (like the numbers on a clock), around a small black, central cross on a grey background. One of the disks disappears briefly (for about 0.1 second), then the next (about 0.125 second later), and the next, and so on, in a clockwise direction. The Lilac Chaser aka Pac-Man Illusion

When one stares at the cross for about 20 seconds or so, one first sees a gap running around the circle of lilac disks, then a green disk running around the circle of lilac disks, then a green disk running around on the grey background, the lilac disks having disappeared or having been erased by the green disk.