AVA Vision research and its applications |
The International Society for Psychophysics |
Christoffel Blindenmission |
When you come to Europe (with your kids), don't miss the little perception museums:
"Turm der Sinne" in Nürnberg! | |
Bernd Lingelbach's "The Barn"! • 3sat Video • Phoenix Video |
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Explora (Erlebnismuseum, Frankfurt; sadly discontinued) |
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Ein auf dem Kopf stehendes Haus und andere optische Täuschungen sind auf dem Waldwipfelweg im Bayerischen Wald zu sehen. |
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Illusoria-Land in Switzerland. Check out the dolphins, supposedly visible only to kids |
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Technorama in Winterthur/Switzerland ("Wunderbrücke"). |
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A fun perception museum in Edinburgh/Scotland is the Camera Obscura, and further north in Kirriemuir |
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Also in Edinburgh is the natural science museum Dynamic Earth. In Dundee there is sensation |
I wanted to limit the fun part to Europe. Oh well -- what the heck; here are more, elsewhere. It probably all started with the Exploratorium in San Francisco, which you all know. Here are some that you don't know:
PuzzlingWorld is in New Zealand. It has the largest Ames room of all and a great suite of tilted rooms, according to Robert O'Shea. |
Arts exhibition at the Torre di Sulis during ECVP 2012 in Alghero
There is now a regular arts and vision science conference, VSAC |
Another illusions resource list with (partially outdated: Herrmann grid) explanations and a somewhat misleading (because health-related) title, from Bradley Univ., IL: |
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New Optical
Illusions.com |
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Martin Mißfeldt from Berlin plays with classical illusions. Check out his Old/young woman video |
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Campbell-Robson Chart (Izumi Ohzawa) | |
Optics4Kids from OSA | |
Kid's Pages from NIH | |
Neuroscience for Kids | |
Unite for Sight, for Kids |
Amazingly often, nice link collections on illusions are put together to entertain readers of a commercial website that may be related to vision or is on something else altogether. These link collections are generally interesting to browse through but must be used with caution when used in education, like in science school projects. There is a tendency to oversimplify or distort matters, to plagiarize the work of others, omit giving credit, violating copyright (note that images are nearly always protected).
Anyway, with some hesitation here are a few:
Deceiving Art: A Guide to Stereograms
Understanding perception (Nothing is really explained, though.)
Optical Illusions and Car Driving Safety (Some quite interesting applications for illusions)