How do optical illusions work? The illusion effects your eyes and brain producing an excess stimulation of the brightness, color, size, position, tilt, and movement of what your looking at. Why is it our brains don't catch on to our eyes' tricks? Beau Lotto shows us how light and color can greatly effect what we see.
It is so interesting how colors and light can change an image completely. Optical illusions are pictures or objects that trick your brain into thinking it's something else by changing the color, light, movement, excreta. I love looking at all these illusions and trying to figure them out. When Beau Lotto finishes his talk with the final question of "is this an illusion," how do you know what is or isn't? What do you think the answer is? Optical illusions are everywhere, how do we know if what were seeing is the truth? After watching this TED talk as I look around I can't help to wonder if what I'm looking at is an illusion or not.
