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Effect of After-Image and Online Optical Illusion

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Pscyhological Article on After Image Effects in Online Optical Illusions

Psychological Article Explaining After-Image in Online Optical Illusions

Online optical illusions result from varying artificially constructed factors as well as resulting from imperfections in the optical system. One of these features that contributes to the development of online optical illusions is the after-image effect. Psychological articles explain the ‘After image’ as the effects wherein the eyes continue seeing an object even after you have stopped looking at the object. The after-image effect enables the formation of many magical online optical illusions.

The formation of American flag is a popular online optical illusion incorporating the after-image effect. Take a look at the above picture.

It may be really surprising to find that yes, this online optical illusion will create the American Flag. We’ll show you how this happens utilizing after-images to create the red white and blue impression of the American flag.

Where is the American Flag?

The American flag is right here, in this online optical illusion. Fix your sight at the border between the yellow box and the strips in this image for about 20 seconds. If you still do not see the American flag, shift your vision to a white surface. You will find the American flag there, with red and white strips and white stars in a blue rectangle. It appears as an after-image of the original flag. Ok, baby boomers. We think you’ll agree this is a really a cool online optical illusion and we’re happy to use this psychological article to explain how this works.

Why did the color changed in the after-image?

In this online optical illusion, the colors change from cyan to red, black to white, and yellow to blue. According to psychological articles, the photoreceptive cells in the retina become less responsive to a particular color as you stare at it for a period of time. When the after-image is formed, the object is projected in the complementary color of the original color. In the current online optical illusion, red, white, and blue are the complementary colors of cyan, black, and yellow respectively. Hence, you see the American flag in the after-image.

Boomer Yearbook has brought you many other online optical illusions such as The “Face of Jesus” and ” Bird and Cage”, online optical illusions based on the after-image effect.

This Psychological Article on Online Optical Illusions is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of out of the ordinary suggestions on how to alleviate elderly problems and keep our brains young. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

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Online Optical Illusion Due to Retinal Rivalry

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Psychological Article Explaining Online Optical Illusion of Retinal Rivalry

Psychological Article Explaining Online Optical Illusions

By Boomeryearbook.com

The human eyes are very complex in both their structure and function. This complexity often leads to the creation of optical illusions, including online optical illusions. The retinas of the two eyes act as two independent monocular fields. These fields try to gain supremacy over each other. There are numerous online optical illusions based on this rivalry between an individual’s two eyes.

Online optical illusions formed based on this rivalry are more apparent when there are two or more objects of different colors in the visual field. The focus of the eyes keeps fluctuating from one color to another due to the rivalry of the retinas. As a result of this fluctuation, the brain perceives a kind of movement from one color to another and sees static elements of different colors in motion. Many online optical illusions incorporate this feature to stun the human eye; such as the above online optical illusion example.

What do you notice in this online optical illusion? At first glance, you will see that the circles made of white, blue, and red colors appear to revolve. Now, take a closer look at each element independently. They are actually static elements. The movement of the circle in this online optical illusion is just a visual trick.

The trick to making this online optical illusion appear to be moving lies in the rivalry between the two retinas of the eyes. The focus keeps fluctuating from one color to another due to the rivalry creating a motion from one color to another; thus making the circles appear to revolve. Additionally, the contrast of the yellow and gray backgrounds also aids in producing the revolving effect in this online optical illusion.

It is easy to incorporate this visual feature in numerous online optical illusions. The scope of what you can create is endless. You can use this feature to make the motion of the illusion appear to move center to outward or to make wavy online optical illusions. Now that you know the trick. Enjoy!

This Psychological Article on Online Optical Illusions is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of out of the ordinary suggestions on how to alleviate elderly problems and keep our brains young. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

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Online Optical Illusion: Muller-Lyer Illusion

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Online Optical Illusion of Muller-Lyer

Psychological Article Explaining The Role of Perspective in Online Optical Illusions

By Boomeryearbook.com

“Seeing is believing.” Do you think that what ever you see is worth believing? Think again. There are a large number of online optical illusions that show what you see and not you think you see are not a one to one perfect match. The Muller-Lyer illusion is one such online optical illusion. This online optical illusion works on the principle of perspective. Psychological articles suggest that brain perceives an object at a farther point to be bigger than an object that is at a nearer point due to the effect of perspective.

In Muller-Lyer online optical illusion, the eye is deceived into thinking there is a difference from the original length of two lines when arrows are added pointing in different directions.

Which of the line two lines in this online optical illusion is longer? The second line with the outward arrow flaps definitely looks longer. However, the two lines are identical in length. Don’t believe us? Take a ruler to ascertain the lengths of both lines for yourself.

There are three main causes for the trick in this online optical illusion.

• The visual angle or the “perspective” gets smaller with distance. Therefore, the brain automatically perceives objects at farther distances to be bigger.

• We are familiar with lines that have inward flaps, such as corner of a building, which are relatively the nearest points of the overall object. Similarly, lines with outward flaps are found at the longer distance, as the farthest corner of a room. The brain perceives both the lines in this online optical illusion in relation to prior perceptions.

• In this online optical illusion, the brain perceives the line with outward flaps to be at a farther point as compared to the line with inward flaps. Consequently, the brain perceives the line with outward flaps to be longer.

Based on the principle of “perspective”, the deception of this online optical illusion is not limited to only the lines; as the visual deception may be any object or figure. Hence, many artists have used the principle of “perspective” to create various online optical illusions.

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Online Optical Illusion: Hermann Grid

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

By Boomeryearbook.com

Contrast is an important element that contributes to the formation of online optical illusions. The Hermann Grid is one of the most popular optical illusions that is based on the element of contrast. In the Hermann Grid, the effect of contrast produces an illusion of a new color apart from the original colors forming the grid.

Psychological Article explaining Hermann Grid Online Optical Illusion

Look at this online optical illusion and try to count the number of colors in the grid. How many colors do you see? You will see two colors distinctly; white and black. Do you also see gray colors at each of the intersections?

Now focus your sight at each intersection. Do you still see the gray colors? Surprisingly, the gray colors have vanished. The gray colors that appear at the intersections are not really present there. They are actually illusions.

What is the Scientific Reason of Hermann Grid online optical illusion?

The gray colors in this online optical illusion are due to the adjustment of brightness of an image on the eye’s retinal cells. The near-center of the retina has the highest resolution vision while the periphery has lower resolution vision. In the periphery of the retina, the brightness of the image is reduced significantly producing the graying effect in online optical illusions.

Explaining Hermann Grid Online Optical Illusion

In the Hermann Grid online optical illusion, when you focus your sight exactly at the intersections, the image falls at the near-center of the retina. Hence, you see the exact color, which is white. You also see the white colors between the black squares as exactly the same because the brightness is balanced between the white and the black areas. However, when you do not look at the intersections, but at the image as a whole, (the Gestalt of the image) the image of the intersections fall to the periphery of the eye’s retina. This results in a decrease in the brightness of the area. Hence, you see gray colors at the intersections in this online optical illusion. Fascinating, isn’t it?

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Online optical illusion: Visual interpretation

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Online Optical Illusions: Visual Interpretation

By Boomeryearbook.com

The Web is full of online optical illusions that occur due to human imperfections in interpretation of visual data. The human eye collects the visual data of an object. The nervous system then interprets these data. The eye can be frequently deceived and may not always record the exact data, which results in optical illusions, including online optical illusions. However, even when the eye records the exact data, the brain may not be able to interpret the data. This also leads to online optical illusions.

When an individual sees an object, the brain compares it with its nearest element or adjoining element. The brain then makes an interpretation of the object in relationship with its adjoining element. This factor often leads to misinterpretation of the visual element, and to online optical illusions, as shown in the figure.

In this online optical illusion, can you recognize the bigger element? The element in red looks much bigger than the element in orange. Is the element in red actually bigger than the element in orange? The answer is No. The elements in this online optical illusion are actually identical in size. If you don’t believe it try comparing the corresponding edge.

Why do the elements in this online optical illusion look different in size?

The answer lies in how the brain interprets this image. The eye sees both elements properly. However, when the brain interprets this online optical illusion, it compares the long edge of the red element to the adjoining short edge of the orange element. Accordingly, the brain interprets the red element to be bigger than the orange element in thus creating an online optical illusion, and a feature frequently seen in many other online optical illusions.

Do you think that the color might have enhanced the effect? You can find out very easily. Create a similar online optical illusion without any color. Then you will discover the role of color in aiding this online optical illusion trick.

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Online Optical Illusion Based on Size

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Psychological Articles Explaining Online Optical Illusions

By Boomeryearbook.com

In the wide range of online optical illusions available on the Web, many of them are based on the relative size of the visual elements in a visual frame. The perception of the visual elements is not an independent action. We perceive a visual element in connection with other visual elements. The same is true for online optical illusions. Psychological and Neuropsychological articles suggest that an object appears larger when placed with smaller objects and vice versa. This phenomenon has been incorporated into online optical illusions and has fun, amazing effects.

Comparison of Two Circles

Comparisons of geometrical figures are very popular online optical illusions found on the Web.

Figure 1 shows an online optical illusion that compares two circles surrounded by circles of different size.

Figure 1

In this online optical illusion, black circles of smaller sizes surround one white circle while bigger black circles surround another circle. When we look at this online optical illusion, the white circle surrounded by smaller back circles looks bigger than the circle surrounded by bigger black circles. But, are you sure that the size of these white circles are different? You will be surprised to know that these circles are actually same in size. Is it hard to believe? Then, draw a diameter of each of these circles and measure the length. You will find that your eyes are deceiving you. The truth is they are the same size.

The same effect holds true in other geometrical figures as well.

Comparison of two lines

Figure 2 shows an online optical illusion with two vertical lines of same size. However, when you look at this image, your brain perceives the vertical line on the right to be longer. It is due to the smaller space within the two horizontal lines as compared to that of the vertical line in the left.

Figure 2

This visual effect is used in many online optical illusions to trick the human eye. You can also easily create an online optical illusion of your own using this visual effect.

Online Optical Illusions and Visual Effects

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Pscyhological Article Explaining Visual Effects in Online Optical Illusions

By Boomeryearbook.com

As cited in Boomer Yearbook’s ongoing series of psychological articles explaining online optical illusions visual elements play a very important role in both creating and understanding the mechanisms behind online optical illusion tricks. These visual elements, when placed systematically in relationship to each other, can produce many effective online optical illusions. When the human eye looks at a visual element, it collects the visual data of the surrounding elements as well. The brain, also, interprets the particular visual element in relationship with the surrounding elements. In addition to the surrounding elements, the background also aids in producing very effective online optical illusions.

An example of a common online optical illusion that follows this principle of visual elements is the double-sided checkerboard.

In this online optical illusion, when you look at the lower half, you will see a checkerboard on the ground. On the other hand, you will see a floating checkerboard when you see the upper half; and it becomes an online optical illusion if you look at the full image.

How do you explain this online optical illusion?

• First, let us consider the lower half of this online optical illusion. You notice the seven white dots and the background then you relate it with prior visual data stored in your brain. You perceive this image in relationship with some objects placed on the edge of a plane surface. The background, which looks like some solid material on the ground, also aids in your perception that the checkerboard is on the ground and the white dots are placed on it.

• Second, in the upper half of this online optical illusion, the six black arcs are placed as if they are on the edge of a shelf. Moreover, the sky as background projects the checkerboard as floating in the air.

• When viewed as a whole image, you are unable to understand the number of sides of the checkerboard in this online optical illusion.

You can find a wide range of online optical illusions incorporating this trick. To unravel this kind of online optical illusions, all you have to do is separate each visual element and look at them independently. Do you think that this online optical illusion will have the same effect if the background was the same? We at Boomer Yearbook hope you’ll experiment and let us know.

The Psychological Article on Online Optical Illusions is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of out of the ordinary suggestions on how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

Pass Out: A Board Game for Baby Boomers

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

"Pass Out" Board Game to Alleviate Elderly Problems of Boredom: Warning-Don't Play and Drive

An Article on Alleviating Elderly Problems

by Boomeryearbook.com

Life as a boomer with elderly problems can sometimes become quite dull and boring. To get a break from the of monotony, try spending a fun evening with friends playing board games. However, finding a game that is entertaining for people aged 50 and above can be quite a challenge. While carrying out a research trying to find fun ways for baby boomers with elderly problems to spend their weekends, Boomer Yearbook’s research team found our about “Pass Out”. Warning! Don’t Drink and Drive while playing this game.

Usually four people play “Pass-Out” – an adult-drinking game perfect for baby boomers looking for a little fun; or the number of people can exceed four if you want to include another person in the game. It is somewhat similar to Monopoly only alcohol is taken instead of buying property.

Rules of the game

The way “Pass-Out” alleviates the elderly problem of boredom is by all players beginning on the same square, as in Monopoly, then the red counter person makes the first move and rolls two dice. Then in a clockwise direction he or she moves the count of squares. Whatever is indicated on the square has to be done by the player. Then turn by turn each player will follow the directions on the squares they land on.

Instead of a “Monopoly’s” Go to Jail square the Pass-Out game gives a boot to elderly problems by spicing it up with “Go to the Bar” square. If a person lands here, he must go to the bar instantly and if the person passes the start square a pink elephant card does not have to be picked. But in a case where the person picks a Pass- Out card that directs him to Go to a Bar then he has to pick up a pink elephant card. There are three ways to get out of the bar.

by keeping a Get out of Bar card
by rolling 7 or 11 on the dice
just taking a sip of a watered down drink

Since you are not relieved of drinking while you are in the jail; baby boomers with the elderly problem of alcohol abuse should not play this game as a drink has to be taken whenever somebody lands on the square of your color.

The Start square of “Pass Out” works like the “Go” square of “Monopoly”, the difference is getting a Pink elephant card in place of 200 points.

And All must take three drinks square in Pass Out has replaced the free parking card on “Monopoly”.

The rest of the squares are colors. You take a drink is represented by orange, yellow means that the one who has a yellow counter should take a drink and the same goes for blue, green and yellow squares. However, landing on a white square indicates that the person must follow the instructions on a “Pass Out” card. Pink square directs everyone to have a drink.

Two sets of cards

There are two sets of cards:

Pink elephant cards – contain interesting tongue twisters which everyone takes turns saying.
Pass-Out cards – are tricky like chance cards which can land one into trouble or be favorable.

Other rules for this game are related to lighting up. Lighting up can be declined by a player. On lighting up without a relevant card they have to down five drinks. Again, we need to warn that those with the elderly problems of alcohol abuse should not be playing this game.

Drinks

Players are free to drink more or less from the whole glass. It is fine in this game for someone with any elderly problem where large amounts of drinking are contraindicated to take just the tiniest sip of the drink and even spit it out if they want, such as in wine tasting. There is never any rule that says to take the whole drink.

Conclusion

The game can go on for two hours. It is a fun-for-all drinking game or as we said can be a wine sipping game, but only for those baby boomers that don’t have elderly problems that prohibit them from drinking, and NO ONE SHOULD EVER DRINK and DRIVE. However, under the right, safe circumstances, playing games like Pass Out with friends is also a fantastic way of beating elderly problems of boredom. It’s kind of like a “strip poker” for adults, definitely spicing up a get together.

The Psychological Article on Pass out: A Board Game for Baby Boomers is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of out of the ordinary suggestions on how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

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What Obama’s Stimulus Plan Could Mean for a Baby Boomer

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Pscyhological Article: What Stimulus Package will mean for Baby Boomers

A Psychological Article by BoomerYearbook.com

President Barack Obama introduced his plan for rescuing the sliding American economy to the nation late last year. Psychological Articles reviewing the plan have informed us that modifications have since been made, but the fundamentals remain the same. According to psychological articles the plan is to inject $75 billion into the economy in an attempt to inject profits from it either directly or indirectly into other economic areas. But how exactly does this work? And how does this stimulus plan affect Baby Boomers?

Psychological articles inform us that the stimulus plan operates by injecting income into places that have less income as a result of the recession in the hopes that this will encourage more spending on their part which aids the economy. An easier way to wrap your head around this idea is a working example of the psychological articles explanation of how this is supposed to work. Let’s say Molly has had to take a pay cut so that her company does not go out of business; Molly will, then, have less money to spend at the supermarket and at the mall. The products that Molly would normally have bought will, then, stay in the store and the manufacturers of those products will have lower sales. They will then have to lay off some employees and, if things get bad enough, close down. Psychological articles explain that the result is that more people will become unemployed, creating a strain on the economy and, also, a strain on the government who will have more unemployed people to support.

Obama’s solution is his stimulus plan. Obama intends to inject $75 billion collectively into those areas where relative stability where psychological articles tell us is key for the immediate growth of the economy. These are: workers and their families; seniors who are dependent on Social Security checks; homeowners who are suffering from the foreclosure crisis; those states that are suffering the most from the housing crisis and those who benefit from unemployment insurance.

Psychological articles let us know that most of these areas affect Baby Boomers, so let’s look at what this really means for us. According to a review of the psychological articles dealing with this subject, those of us baby boomers who are retired can look forward to $250 bonus on our social security checks, but only if you earn mid-to-low incomes. Individually, this may or may not make a difference depending on your expenses; however, collectively this could mean good news for the economy because more spending is sure to take place. This will help to pump up the general economy – even if it will not return it to what it was. Additionally, psychological articles ascertain that Obama has, in the stimulus plan, an additional $250 (if the original $250 isn’t enough) so this part of the plan is almost very likely to work. The monetary injection into the pockets of workers and their families work pretty much the same way, except they come in the form of tax breaks, which psychological articles tell us will have an equally beneficially effect in boosting the economy.

Thus, an assessment of psychological articles on the stimulus plan suggests that it means change; it no doubt includes someone taking a hard blow for the benefit of others. Opponents cited in psychological articles on the subject think that the wealthy are being asked to bear too much of the stimulus burden. It is true, that the wealthiest among us will pay for most of this stimulus; but psychological articles argue that they will receive the most benefits in the long run as the average person will use the stimulus received to help wealthy Americans’ businesses. What current psychological articles do not have the ability to tell us is whether or not this stimulus will work to get us back on the right track to economic recovery, as the end result will only be known in years to come.

The Psychological Article on What Obama’s Stimulus Plan Could Mean for a Baby Boomer is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of psychological articles on Politics and Current Events Affecting Baby Boomers. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

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Basic Tenets of Judaism

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Star of David

Psychological Articles as Solutions to Types of Discrimination

By Boomeryearbook.com

Judaism is a religion often confused with a culture or with ethnicity. What Judaism refers to is a practice of faith based on the Torah, a holy book said to be written by Moses, the supreme prophet of Judaism. Judaism is different from other religions in that its focus is not so much on beliefs as it is on actions. Though originally established among the Jews (hence the name), anyone from any race can practice Judaism.

Judaism is a monotheist religion, this means that a belief in one God and worship that one God rather than several gods. It is about 3500 years old and boasts to be one of the world’s smallest religions having about only 12 million followers. Judaism is one of the world’s oldest religions and subscribes to the instructions given from the Written Torah, the Oral Torah given to Moses and laws contributed to by long-standing Rabbis.

Some Judaic precepts are:
• God exists
• God is one and unique.
• God is incorporeal (i.e. spiritual).
• The words of the prophets are true.
• All of God’s children are equal – male and female.
• The Sabbath (the seventh day of the week on the Jewish calendar, said to be Saturday or Sunday) must be respected. This means that all work is done in 6 days of week and then rest must be taken on the seventh day).
• Prayer is to be directed to God alone and no other.
• Peace is superior to war.
• God knows the thoughts and deeds of men.
• There will be no other Torah.
• God is eternal.
• Followers strive to make the world better by working with the earth (hence consuming only kosher foods).
• The written Torah and oral Torah were given to Moses.
• Moses’ prophecies are true and he was the greatest prophet.
• The Messiah will come.
• The dead will be resurrected.
• God will reward the good and punish the wicked.

Judaism asserts that relationships and actions are more important than cosmological consequences; therefore, the belief in heaven and hell varies among different practitioners; but all forms of Jews focus on obeying the 613 laws of the Torah and trying to be examples of love and virtue, along with a prominent Jewish tradition placed on the ritual of giving back to the community and the earth.*

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Effect of After-Image and Online Optical Illusion

Online Optical Illusion Due to Retinal Rivalry

Online Optical Illusion: Muller-Lyer Illusion

Online Optical Illusion: Hermann Grid

Online optical illusion: Visual interpretation

Online Optical Illusion Based on Size

Online Optical Illusions and Visual Effects

Pass Out: A Board Game for Baby Boomers

What Obama’s Stimulus Plan Could Mean for a Baby Boomer

Basic Tenets of Judaism

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