Not sure why I am posting this Optical Illusion, except that maybe it is educational

[The Straight Story]

In how we sometimes see complex situations or ignore issues, etc. It is what it is and I leave it to others to express what (if anything) they get from it (maybe a lesson in distraction...who knows).

Sometimes art is the ability to see different things when looking at the same thing. Or something like that :)

Healing Grid
Ryota Kanai

The image is regular at the center, but the grid pattern is less regular at the peripheral parts of the images (both on the left and right edges). As you stare at the center of the grid for say 20 seconds, the regularity of the grid pattern at the center spreads into the irregular parts in the periphery. This illusion seems to indicate the preference of the visual brain to see regular patterns.



http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=36

[alfredo]

1. It got more complex for me. I must be an anarchist.

[applegrove]

2. I think it is very relavant to these political times. Shows us how much

we "fill in" when given certain patterns of information. Our minds will go for the simplest solution at times. Erasing some truths that we consciously know are so. Thanks for posting.

[MuseRider]

3. what does it mean

If it does not change?

[The Straight Story]

5. That you are crazy

:rofl:

[exothermic]

6. My question as well...it didn't change at all for me.

:shrug:

[spanone]

4. thanks...that's amazing

[Subdivisions]

7. Works for me. n/t

[readmoreoften]

8. I'd have to see one that is chaotic at the center and regular in the periphery to be sure.

[NV Whino]

9. I think it means that Obama is a centrist

and if you stare at him long enough, it seems as if he fixes the fringe, but when you pull back for the over-all picture, things remain just the same.