What is Synesthesia?
A perceptual phenomenon of the overlapping of multiple Senses, which brings about a Harmony of COLOR + SOUND + SHAPE + MOVEMENT
What is Cymatics?
The study of the visible effects of SOUND + VIBRATION + MATTER
What is Trompe-l'œil?
Literally "Trickery of the Eye" in French / highly realistic optical illusion of 3-D space + objects on a 2-D surface.
What is Mirror Touch Synesthesia (MTS) ?
A rare condition that causes a person to feel an empathetical sensation of touch/pain when they see someone else being touched/hurt
What is Simultaneous Contrast?
The tendency of a color to induce its opposite in hue, value and intensity upon an adjacent color and be mutually affected in return. (Ex: Hermann Grid)
Who is the future-centric architect most known for the Geodesic Dome?
Buckminster Fuller
Which living Female artist is obsessed with polka dots?
94-year-old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama began her 'self-obliterating' field of endless dots after seeing hallucinations + visions in her youth
Who is considered the "Grandfather of Op Art" of the 1960s?
Hungarian-French artist Victor Vasarely is best known for his grid-like paintings + sculptures exploring depth, perspective + motion
What is the Ames Room?
A distorted room that creates an optical illusion of relative sizes, messing with depth perception (invented by American scientist Adelbert Ames Jr.)
What is Ombré?
Literally "shaded" in French / the blending of one color hue to another, usually moving tints + shades from light to dark (Gradient).
What angle does Director Stanley Kubrick utilize in all his movies?
One-Point Perspective on a 2D plane; 1st discovered during the Renaissance, He uses 1 point in the distance from which everything in the frame is set out.
What is Successive Contrast? (ex: Thaumatrope displayed)
After Image / Ghost / Phantom-Limb effect created when you look at an object / color immediately after you have observed an object / color in 'Succession'
What is Optical Mixing?
When 2 hues are placed side-by-side or on top of each other, your vision produces the illusion of a third color.
What is Razzle Dazzle / Dazzle Camouflage used by the British and Americans during WWI + WWII?
Military ships were painted in 1 / more contrasting colors in complex patterns of geometric shapes in order to obscure / confuse the Germans.
What is Magic Eye?
Autostereograms: 2D images that can create the optical illusion of a 3D scene.
What is Color Vibration?
A visual illusion where the impression of depth is conveyed in 2D color images, usually of red-blue / red-green colors.
