What is Hybrid Illusion?
A double-image illusion, where different images are perceived depending on viewing distance, viewing duration or image size.
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 Lighting changes the Effect of the Viral Blue Dress vs. Gold Dress?
Fluorescent Light (Cooler) vs. Incandescent Light (Warmer)
Which Op Artist made this painting?
British artist Bridget Riley
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)
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.
Who is the future-centric architect most known for the Geodesic Dome?
Buckminster Fuller
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.
What is Cymatics?
The study of the visible effects of SOUND + VIBRATION + MATTER
What is Synesthesia?
A perceptual phenomenon of the overlapping of multiple Senses, which brings about a Harmony of COLOR + SOUND + SHAPE + MOVEMENT
What is this an example of?
Pointillism, which uses Optical Mixing by Georges Seurat
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 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 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
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
As Photoreceptors for Light, what are Cones + Rods responsible for in your Retina?
Red, Green, and Blue Cones are responsible for Color Vision. Rods are responsible for B+W Night Vision.
What is String Theory in Theoretical Physics + How many Dimensions
does it require?
Idea that reality's made up of infinitesimal vibrating strings, smaller than atoms, electrons or quarks; requires 10th Dimension
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 is the Pepper's Ghost Technique, dating back to the Victorian Era, which uses a glass plate?
A "hologram" performed by reflecting an img of a person off-stage so that they appear to be in front of an audience (used in theatre, cinema, concerts, TV, etc)
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 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 Dimension is Flatland?
2D world inhabited by geometric figures; women are line segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides, including narrator as Square.