<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2f0f19d5-3f5f-488e-be1f-baefb9ed19ef/D0F1A0DE-AD1E-4AB6-8831-40DF7C8005D0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/03/phantom-like-optical-illusion.html" href="http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/03/phantom-like-optical-illusion.html" style="font-size: 11px;">spluch.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/03/phantom-like-optical-illusion.html"><H3 class="entry-header">Phantom-like Optical Illusion</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/03/phantom-like-optical-illusion.html"><DIV><A href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ovJS1Em-6dg/Rg2SM1KL8DI/AAAAAAAAGCE/t4o5d1lphPg/s1600-h/Optical+Illusion.jpg"><IMG border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047851506478084146" title="Hybrid Images" alt="Hybrid Images" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ovJS1Em-6dg/Rg2SM1KL8DI/AAAAAAAAGCE/t4o5d1lphPg/s320/Optical+Illusion.jpg" /></A>Take a good look - what do you see? Close up it is clearly a faintly phantom-like image of Albert Einstein. Now step back 5 meters from the screen and take another look. Notice anything different?</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/03/phantom-like-optical-illusion.html"><DIV>It's not just a crafty illusion. This sort of image is being used as a tool to understand better how our brains process visual scenes. On the practical side, some companies are interested in using them to conceal information from unintended observers - or to create printed advertising that morphs before your eyes!</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/03/phantom-like-optical-illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/spluch.blogspot.com/img/3C4E2D53-1710-4859-BE84-77CB43E60C2D" alt="Hybrid Images" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D0F1A0DE-AD1E-4AB6-8831-40DF7C8005D0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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