Dragon Illusion

[fleaplus]

(via TechRepublic blog)

Ok, this illusion is pretty darned cool. Basically, you print out this PDF and construct a paper sculpture of a dragon. It makes use of an inverted face illusion, so that if you close one eye while looking at it, it will look like it's head is moving around to follow you. This video shows how strong the effect is.

Comments

[scacynewise]

this is cool. Internet is really slow at school today so can't watch video, but did save the PDF to disk (would have just printed it out, but no color printer, and don't want to lose the dragon's cute coloring!). Can't wait to see how it works after I get it printed/assembled!

I love your blog, it's very interesting!

[sleepsong]

I love the hollow face illusion. I was in a museum once that employed it in one of their exhibits and it scared the crap of me.

Obviously, I'm going to leave one in the fake Lounge on Monday.

[puuj]

Possibly, "What the fuck does Neil do hours after midnight in the lab?"

Happy Ides of March!