Tadamasa Sawada: Seeing the impossible (lecture about visual illusions)
Tadamasa Sawada, lecture about visual illusions (in English) and about visual illusions relevant with Russia.
lecture (0:00 - 1:00)
questions (~1:00-1:40)
Lector show pictures of M.C.Escher and explain how these illusions happen because our brain is tuned so that we can perceive shapes of objects in our everyday life.
M.C.Escher left many drawings of impossible objects. The shapes of these objects are theoretically impossible but can be perceived by us. There are also objects that have the opposite property. Namely, the shapes of these opposite objects are theoretically possible but are hardly perceived by us.
Tadamasa Sawada, a vision scientist studying 3D perception from theoretical aspects.
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Встреча прошла в среду 2 ноября 2019 в центре рациональности Кочерга.
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