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Home Archives Archives before June 13, 2001 RSS Feed Adaptive Path (my company!) About peterme Coordinates Most of the Time Oakland, CA Interests Current American history around the time of the Revolution, figuring out how to marry top-down task-based information architecture processes with bottom-up document-based ones, finding a good dentist in San Francisco Oakland Perennial Designing the user experience (interaction design, information architecture, user research, etc.), cognitive science, ice cream, films and film theory, girls, commuter bicycling, coffee, travel, theoretical physics for laypeople, single malt scotch, fresh salmon nigiri, hanging out, comics formalism, applied complexity theory, Krispy Kreme donuts. surf Click to see where I wander. Wish list Show me you love me by buying me things. Spyonme Track updates of this page with Spyonit. Clickee here. Essays [Editor's note: peterme.com began as a site of self-published essays, a la Stating The Obvious. This evolved (or devolved) towards link lists and shorter thoughtpieces. These essays are getting a tad old, but have some good ideas.] Reader Favorites Interface Design Recommended Reading List Whose "My" Is It Anyway? Frames: Information Vs. Application Subjects Interface Design Web Development Movie Reviews Travel		Dude! It's Floating! Posted on 06/24/2001. Image found here. This might be the neato-est optical illusion I've seen. 8 comments so far. Add a comment. Previous entry: "Walls, The Musical!" Next entry: "Getting More ROI From Design." Comments: COMMENT #1 Thanks for the virtual Exploratorium. Posted by vanderwal @ 06/24/2001 08:44 AM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #2 I like these better: (1) Instructions: "Focus on the black dot while moving towards or away from the monitor." http://www.kristoffbertram.com/images/weird.jpg (2) http://www.eyetricks.com/0102.gif (3) http://members.aol.com/gspz2/illusions/illusions2/01.jpg - John John S. Rhodes WebWord.com -- Industrial Strength Usability http://webword.com john@webword.com Posted by WebWord @ 06/24/2001 10:26 AM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #3 Put down the bong, peter... Posted by c @ 06/24/2001 11:31 AM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #4 i have a shirt that looks like that and the tesselated patterns. it drives people crazy, so i like to where it at meetings. Posted by michael a @ 06/25/2001 06:06 AM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #5 i meant "wear it" not "where it". geez. that pattern affected my head i think. Posted by michael a @ 06/25/2001 06:17 AM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #6 ouch. Posted by judith @ 06/25/2001 09:55 AM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #7 *rubs eyes* ... great, now I'll be seeing that floaty circle for a few hours. Posted by jish @ 06/25/2001 09:14 PM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #8 On the linked page, number 9 is the one that blows me away. It took me quite awhile to really believe that the diagonal lines were really parallel. Number 10 has a similar effect as well. The first time I looked at them, I was so convinced that the lines weren't really parallel that I thought the author of the page was just wrong. Posted by Rafe @ 06/27/2001 08:49 AM PST [link to this comment] Add A New Comment: Name E-Mail (optional) Homepage (optional) Comments Now with a bigger box for text entry! Whee! All contents of peterme.com are © 1998 - 2002 Peter Merholz.