Ilusions Blog

I thought the illusions were very cool to look at, and I was able to see and learn a lot about the way things can be percieved. The eight blogs that I went to were the snake illusion, rotationg snake, spiral aftereffect, Rogets 'palisade' illusion, freezing roation illusion, biological motion, hidden bird, and hidden figure-dalmation dog.
From the tutorials I learned that things aren't always what they appear to be. In order to see some things you have to really relax your eyes otherwise you won't be able to see the images that are there, like in the hidden figure one, at first I couldn't see the dog then I relaxed my eyes and I was able to see it. I also learned that eye movements do matter. The snake illusion tutorial wasn't acutally moving, but when I moved my eyes it looked the the image was expanding when it really wasn't.
It suprised me that the position of the picture had an effect on the way the picture looked. One of the tutorial's rotated and that made the image look totally different than what it was. It also suprised me how much eye movements matter. Everytime your eye moves it affects how the picture will come across.
It changed the way I percieve things by showing that there is always a different image to something. You may see just one thing, but if you look closer there may be something else under what we originally see.
These may affect they way I look at things on a day to day basis by making me look at things more closely to see if there is an image in it. It may make me look at things from a differenct angle to see if the image can be looked at two different ways than the normal way.