The latest works 36

since October 21, 2008



"Expanding boke flowers"

boke = Japanese quinces

Each flower appears to expand.

Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka 2008 (December 20)



"Rotating red fruits"

Rings of fruits appear to rotate.

Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka 2008 (December 19)



"Rotating red disks"

Disks appear to rotate.

Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka 2008 (December 18)

cf. Wezit



"Frame-by-frame playback motion"

Triggered by eye movements, the upper half appears to move rightward while the lower one leftward.

Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka 2008 (December 18)

cf. Wezit



"Mach band and the Joruri-ji temple"

Mach bands appear to be enhanced by mixing them with pictures.

Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka 2008 (December 4)

Joruri-ji temple in autumn color





Mach band



"3D Forum 2008"

Rings appear to rotate.

Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka 2008 (November 18)

Program (in Japanese)



"Development"

It appears as if there were light-blue and yellowish green rings, though they are the same color.

Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka 2008 (November 1)

cf. Monnier, P. and Shevell, S. K. (2003) Large shifts in color appearance from patterned chromatic backgrounds. Nature Neuroscience, 6, 801-802.


"Switch of the planes of revolution"

When observers see this image with relaxation, the attention-focused plane of revolution appears to keep switched to the next one.

Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka 2008 (October 29)


"Reversible radiation"

Red pie slices appear to bulge out or yellow ones do.

Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka 2008 (October 22)

cf. Oyama, T. (1950) Figure-ground dominance as a function of sector angle, brightness, hue, and orientation. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 299-305.


"Time tunnel show 2"

Each circle appears to rotate.

Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka 2008 (October 21)


"Illusory columns"

The width of each column and the gap between adjacent columns are the same, but in the upper half the former appears to be narrower than the latter, while in the lower half the former appears to be wider than the latter.

Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka 2008 (October 21)


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