• Al Seckel (cognitive neuroscientist): "Visual Scandal: Humor, Joy and Surprise in Design"
  • violate expectations in a pleasant or surprising way = happiness
• Crazy Nuts by Jerry Andrus
• What Happens to the Train Lionel's Magic Mountain
• Matheau Haemaker's Cube
• what you perceive is based on past experience, ie., dolphins or intercourse on a vase (Priming by Experience)
• count the dots, optical illusion where you can't get to the dots lols
• Al Seckel, levitating water
• Kitaoka's Perceptual Drift Illusion
• Trompe L'oeil, tricking the eye
• The Future Building, NY

Origins Optical Illusions

• Da Vinci, Anamorphic Eye
• Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors, hidden anamorphic skull hidden below
• Scott Kim, the Escher of the Alphabet
  • Arthur Ganson
  • Analog/Digital
  • Figure Ground
  • Rhythm Melody
  • John Warnock
  • Joy to the World
• Shigeo Fukuda, "The Emperor of Absobi"
  • Distorted Piano
  • Duet, pianist figure to violinist
  • Motorcycle and Shadow
• Ken Knowlton, "Master of Composite Images"
  • Jacques Cousteau out of seashells, untouched but rearranged
  • Einstein, out of dice, he said God doesn't play dice w/ the universe
  • Bert Herzog out of unretouched keyboards
  • Will Shortz crossword puzzle
• John Cederquist, "Craftsman of 2 1/2 dimensions"
  • The Missing Finial
• Al Seckel
  • Entering a New World
  • Pick on Someone your own size
  • I want a larger table
  • Window Gazing
  • Larger within Smaller
  • Color Matching
  • How did you get up here
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