Illusions - Season 2
Season 2
Episodes
Ambiguous Images
Professor Shapiro shows us how some images can prompt two, or even three, equally valid interpretations. Rather than settling on one interpretation, our brains tend to switch among all of them – leading to some baffling and astonishing visual experiences.
Impossible Objects
Professor Shapiro shows us a range of objects that seem simple and unremarkable at first glance, but which on closer examination simply cannot be constructed in reality – or are not at all what they seem.
Perspective Games
Professor Shapiro reaches back into history to show that artists, architects and mathematicians have also employed visual "tricks" to baffle and entertain us by manipulating perspective and challenging our ideas of what is real and what is fake.
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