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POPSHungarian French Artist Victor Vasarely Museum Under Threat of Closure Unique architecture suffering from neglect A petition has been set up to ask the French government to step in and save the landmark building from total decline Vasarely was born in Hungary in 1906 and died in Paris in 1997. During his lifetime, his works were honoured with a number of awards including the Guggenheim prize, the French Legion of Honor, the art critics prize at Brussels and the gold medal at the Milan triennale Vasarely’s identity in the art world was based on his experimentations with optical illusion and the use of line, colour toning and size variation Permanent exhibition faces closure Vasarely began a degree in medicine in Budapest before abandoning his studies to pursue his passion for art. He went on to design the official spiral-shaped logo of the Munich Olympic games
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POPSAN ILLUSION device that makes one object look like another To make a cup look like a spoon, for example, light first strikes the cup and is distorted. It then passes through a complementary metamaterial which cancels out the distortions to make the cup seem invisible. The light then moves into a region of the metamaterial that creates a distortion as if a spoon were present. The result is that an observer looking at the cup through the metamaterial would see a spoon
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POPSamazing 3D murals painted on the sides of buildings The incredibly lifelike scenes are actually huge works of art, painted on the side of perfectly intact buildings... The paintings, which have fooled many, were created by John Pugh, who specialises in trompe l'oeil - or 'trick of the eye' - art.
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POPSBlue Bean Circles Optical Illusions such as this are used to test the level of stress a person can handle. The slower the pictures move, the better your ability of handling stress. Alleged criminals that were tested see them spinning around madly; however, senior citizens and kids see them standing still. By the way, the image is not animated; all the dots are perfectly still.
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POPSThe rotating grid illusion A surprising optical illusion which is related to temporal aliasing, a visual phenomenon also known as the stroboscopic effect, which accounts for the fact that in video or motion pictures, wheels sometimes appear to be turning backwards.
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POPSAbout body image, fashion and then some science... one more: "However, Thompson's study of optical illusions casts doubt on another piece of popular wisdom. He believes that the standard advice from estate agents to show off your house with clear, uncluttered rooms is wrong. Filling up rooms with furniture should make them appear slightly bigger than they actually are, he said. Patterned wallpaper has the same effect."
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POPSMoving Optical Illusion If you check carefully you will see all the things are being sucked inwards also on the edges you can feel that's it's revolving.
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