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Forced Perspective: An Optical Illusion Adventure

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Learn about the concept of forced perspective. This video provides examples of how this technique is used in movies, video games, and even suggests trying it out yourself with a camera or phone to create fun scenes.
Instructional Video5:00
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Smartphone Magic: Unveiling the Tricks Behind the Illusions

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In this video, the speaker discusses the growing trend of incorporating smartphones into magic tricks. They share three simple tricks that can be performed using a smartphone, explaining the methods behind each illusion. The video...
Instructional Video3:00
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Exploring the World of Animation

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Animation is an optical illusion that happens when a series of still images pass rapidly, creating the illusion of motion. Learn about the history of the art and how it has evolved from hand-drawn animation to stop motion and computer...
Instructional Video5:00
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The Illusion of Video

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In this video, the concept of video as an optical illusion is explored. It explains how a series of still pictures, when played in rapid succession, create the illusion of movement. The video also demonstrates this concept through a...
Instructional Video3:15
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The Unconscious Inference: How Your Mind Fills in the Blanks of Vision

Pre-K - Higher Ed
We make a lot of assumptions about the things we see without even thinking about it. We fill in visual gaps based on information from past experiences. This is called unconscious inference. Learn how and why we do this.
Instructional Video5:00
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Understanding Perspective: The Illusion of Depth in 2D Drawings

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Perspective illusion allows us to see two dimensional images as three dimensional. Learn how the human brain's interpretation and perception of patterns fills in the gap of these images to allow us to see depth when it is not actually...
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Weather Things: Aurora and Unique Phenomena

6th - 8th
A blue sky and fluffy bright clouds are things that are seen around the world. The atmosphere presents a multitude of sights and phenomena using light, air, water droplets, ice crystals, and dust. Many of the phenomena give clues to...
Instructional Video13:40
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Unmasking: The End of Debate?

Higher Ed
Unmasking is extreme form of criticism that is becoming increasingly prevalent in social science and everyday discourse where individuals are accused of being fraudulent and ideas are exposed as illusions, making debate and argument...
Instructional Video3:46
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The Elements Of Poetry - Overview

9th - 12th
The Elements of Poetry - Figurative language, meter and rhyme, simile, and metaphor . these are a few of the many topics explored in this lively video tour through the genre of poetry. Other elements illustrated in the program include:...
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Optical illusion

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Optical illusion background. Abstract kaleidoscope.
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Acid Symmetry

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Acid Symmetry
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Hollow-face illusion, animation.

Pre-K - Higher Ed
This is an optical illusion where the perception of a concave (hollow) mask of a face appears as a normal convex (protruding) face. This is because the brain has a strong bias for seeing faces as convex, which counteracts competing depth...
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Multicolored particle waves

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Multicolored particle waves
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Sunset clouds moving overhead

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Sunset clouds moving overhead
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Optic illusion profiles

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Optic illusion profiles
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Harry Houdini best stunts arrive in Miami

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Miami, 27 Apr (EFE), (Camera: Antoni Belchi).- Harry Houdini's best stunts have arrived in Miami in 'Death and Harry Houdini', a stage show that also looks back at the Hungarian-born escape and illusion artist's life. Actor and magician...
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Circular molecules in dark passing by

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Circular molecules in dark passing by
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Dark clouds passing overhead

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Dark clouds passing overhead
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Concentric circle wheel

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Concentric circle wheel
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Kaleidoscopic light beams

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Kaleidoscopic light beams
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Shifting colorful prism

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Shifting colorful prism
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Rotating prism

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Rotating prism
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Strobe lights flash as geometric shapes pass in a psychedelic display.

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Strobe lights flash as geometric shapes pass in a psychedelic display.
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Black and white particle waves

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Digital black and white particle waves