Routhinator
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- Comment on woag 1 week ago:
I’m not trolling. This is simply not an illusion.
- Comment on woag 1 week ago:
Ok those rooms are certainly illusions. My mind was tricked and even after reading how they work I still cannot quite see how when I watch the video. A perfect illusion.
I still wouldn’t call the post for this thread an illusion as there is no trick, just pure perspective. You simply tilt your phone, you see what is happening, and you understand it because its basic physics you were taught in elementary.
This is like the amateur magician. A trickster that knows a few party tricks but is so bad at executing them they are no illusionist. But a master magician uses simple things like perspective and skill to create tricks that are such great illusions that the scientific mind cannot quite work out what has really just happened even though they know it’s a trick. This post is the amateur magician, the Ames room is the master. Both use perspective but in different ways on different levels.
- Comment on woag 1 week ago:
There is nothing erroneous about this perception.
- Comment on woag 1 week ago:
I have no context for this example, have a link? I’ve seen the crazy kitchen at the Museum of Science and Tech in Ottawa that has a similarly themed illusion, but in that one the floors are level but painted in a way that tricks your brain into thinking its angled, but its not, which is 100% illusion.
Thus what I am imagining for your example is that the floor is in fact angled, but the paint makes it look straight, so the short person is infact elevated above the tall person in a way you cannot tell, creating an effect where perspective due to a physical difference makes you think they are on the same level but the illusion provided by the floor messes with that, creating an illusion that is really just perspective.
But there is no trick in this post. You know you’re tilting the phone, there’s no illusion. Its pure angles and you’re completely aware of what is occuring, thus no illusion. The definition of illusion is pretty clear, what you are seeing must be false or erroneous.
noun
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An erroneous perception of reality.
“Mirrors gave the illusion of spaciousness.”
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An erroneous concept or belief.
“The notion that money can buy happiness is an illusion.” 3. The condition of being deceived by a false perception or belief.
“spent months flailing about in illusion.”
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- Comment on woag 1 week ago:
Haha, ok I can agree with that take.
- Comment on woag 1 week ago:
Illusion is seeing something that isn’t there. They can be caused by multiple factors be it one affecting the observer or one that arises from the subject being observed.
This demonstrates perspective and at no point do you see something that is not there. The text is there, it says the same thing. It does not appear to move or distort but rather as you tilt the phone the same light is viewed from a narrower height due to angles and it can be read as though it is not stretched.
An optical illusion makes you see something that simply does not exist, for example this picture that makes you think you see red in spite of there being jo red at all. popularmechanics.com/…/theres-not-a-single-red-pi…
- Comment on woag 1 week ago:
Is perspective really considered an “illision”? While this demonstrates perspective it at no point makes me see something that isn’t real.
- Comment on When I finish a delicious bowl of Malt-O-Meal® cereal [Day 89] 1 month ago:
Huh… as a Canadian Ive only ever had Cream of Wheat and Red River cereal. Never heard of Malt O Meal
- Comment on Do you want me to heat that up in the "Michael Wave"? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Bombs Awat 5 months ago:
I have never seen this and thank you for sharing it because good god I needed it.
- Comment on Bombs Awat 5 months ago:
Gotta weed out the weak ones with the fall.
- Comment on Answer very carefully 5 months ago:
First time I’ve seen it.
- Comment on As AI and megaplatforms take over, the hyperlinks that built the web may face extinction 5 months ago:
Time to build a new one and this time, dont tell investors.
- Comment on I just WON'T 5 months ago:
In Canada, it must contain cream. Milk based desserts are labelled ice milk, and anything using oil or solids is a ‘dessert’. The primary determining factor of the definition is the milk fat content.
- Comment on There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation 5 months ago:
Absolutely, especially with ADHD in the mix. When demand aversion kicks in, your brain literally tries to undermine any attempt to focus unless you can force it to cooperate. Music usually helps me with this.
- Comment on There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation 5 months ago:
Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
We don’t have a natural ability to infer emotions from body language, for a start. We have to learn to actively pay attention to it. Replacing natural instinct that a neurotypical person has with an active thought process is tiring, for a start.
Add to that most ASD people have trouble with emotional control, need to actively think about their own facial expressions, and often have social quirks that are unacceptable like nail biting which must be actively repressed… and being around others for hours on end is exhausting.
On top of this, most ASD people also have ADHD, and in the modern open office environment between the social aspect and never ending barrage of distraction, and the workplace is hostile, actively hostile to folks with ASD.
This combination of factors leads to having no where to unmask and relax until they get home. When they do, they are so exhausted from being something they are not for 10 hours (commute has to be included as its all public space) that when they get home they just shut down. They don’t call family or friends usually, they don’t get things around the house done. They have to turn off and try to re-energize themselves for doing it all again tomorrow.
I know all this as I am ASD and ADHD
Being able to work from home has brought actual balance to our lives as we can unmask the moment the camera goes off, we have rooms at home where we can close the door and remove distractions (well except mandatory work chats, but its a matter of muting that for focus) and at the end of the day we still have energy for our actual lives. In other words, this is the true work-life balance that I had always heard of but never truly felt I had.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x01 "Dos Cerritos" & 5x02 "Shades of Green" 5 months ago:
What if that is exactly what puts Freeman on Starbase 80
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x01 "Dos Cerritos" & 5x02 "Shades of Green" 5 months ago:
So, is anyone else anticipating some crossover with Prodigy and the events that affected the Prime Universe in it’s Season 2.
Because that’s exactly where my mind went when they did the whole foreshadowing of “someone sure is opening a lot of time rifts lately”. (I might have that quote off a bit from Captain Freeman but I’ll edit once I get a chance to rewatch.)
- Comment on Eat lead 5 months ago:
Probably not willingly. Republican States are often horrible at updating infrastructure, and due to the lack of a well educated population, they don’t suffer much repercussion for that. Very high chance they grew up with or still have lead pipes.
- Comment on Wednesday it is, my dudes. 5 months ago:
Correct
- Comment on Wednesday it is, my dudes. 5 months ago:
Forgot the best one.
The French have a few examples of naming things the way they sound. Their word for bullfrog is the sound they make:
Ouaouaron
- Comment on Big Ol' Beavers 5 months ago:
Bigger != taller explicitly
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 5 months ago:
TIL… Thanks.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 5 months ago:
I’ve always loved Keepass, however I moved away from it in 2012 as it any file based vault has brute forcing issues. You need to track every copy of it that has been made and if any copy falls out of your hands, like if you loose a device, you need to do a password rotation on 100% of your passwords. Since its a file, its not possible to prevent brute forcing.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 5 months ago:
Alright does anyone have opinions on Nextcloud Passwords? There’s apps for it and it would sync to my Nextcloud.
I hate this. Bitwarden has been a good app.
- Comment on Peak Performance 5 months ago:
Not working in Signal, Fossify Gallery, Graphene’s ASOP Gallery App or Firefox for me.
- Comment on Peak Performance 5 months ago:
? Lemmy does not have an official app. Are you reading this from Mastodon?
- Comment on Peak Performance 5 months ago:
- Comment on Peak Performance 5 months ago:
Animated webp? Wut? This image seems to be supported solely by Voyager… My browser and all my image apps and chat apps have no clue
- Comment on Peak Performance 5 months ago:
Jiggly
