illusion

In class today we looked at the board and there was an example of how image and text can clash. I think it said something like, “capital letter a” and “lower-case letter A”. There was also an example of a large capital letter B, with the words, “this is not a B”. I don’t think I need to explain much more, you guys were in the same class I was. But, these exercises did make me think of a science project that my next door neighbor was doing back in High School. Just a quick summary: he took a poster board and but 30 colored squares on them; in the squares he wrote the name of a color that did not correspond with the actual color of the square. So, for example, he would have a blue square and he would write the word “green in the middle. The point of the exercise was to see how fast a person could correctly name all the colors of the squares without being thrown off by the word written in the middle. Surprisingly this was a very hard task. Your brain would see the color or the square but would instead say the word you saw, not the right color. Our discussion of image/text made me think of this exercise.  read more »