Your brain is a weird, weird place. This really neat site from the Japan Science and Technology Agency has great illustrations on how the brain interprets information that we see.
It has four main modules. In session 1, you learn about how your brain fills in information that your eyes can't actually see. Your brain will create images in your blind spot and fill in motion where it doesn't exist. Session 2 focuses on how the brain understands three dimensional on a two dimensional surface. You may have had to learn about drawing in linear perspective or how to draw shade on a vase in art class, but your brain already has a complex understanding of it. Session 3 takes us out into the wild world of color. Is the color you see more heavily influenced by the color itself or what surrounds it? What about size? Finally in session 4, the illustrations show how each of these properties effects what you actually think you are seeing.
I've seen most of this before in textbooks - biology, psychology, etc - but the presentation here is so simple and clean it is definitely worth a look.
It has four main modules. In session 1, you learn about how your brain fills in information that your eyes can't actually see. Your brain will create images in your blind spot and fill in motion where it doesn't exist. Session 2 focuses on how the brain understands three dimensional on a two dimensional surface. You may have had to learn about drawing in linear perspective or how to draw shade on a vase in art class, but your brain already has a complex understanding of it. Session 3 takes us out into the wild world of color. Is the color you see more heavily influenced by the color itself or what surrounds it? What about size? Finally in session 4, the illustrations show how each of these properties effects what you actually think you are seeing.
I've seen most of this before in textbooks - biology, psychology, etc - but the presentation here is so simple and clean it is definitely worth a look.
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