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Adding rotation to translation: percepts and illusions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This study investigated how the perception of a translating object is affected by rotation. Observers were asked to judge the motion and trajectory of objects that rotated around their centroid while linearly translating.
Loffler, Gunter   +2 more
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LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURE CONCEPTS OF MODERN WINERIES

open access: yesАрхитектон, 2021
The article analyzes spatial interactions between modern winery architectural projects and their surrounding landscapes. The main winery landscaping concepts in Russia and other countries are identified and rationalized.
Barsukova Natalia I., Zhukova Irina V.
doaj   +1 more source

Exterior cloaking with active sources in two dimensional acoustics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We cloak a region from a known incident wave by surrounding the region with three or more devices that cancel out the field in the cloaked region without significantly radiating waves.
Milton, Graeme W.   +2 more
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Optical Illusions in Aikido

open access: yesRevista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2012
No abstract ...
Guillermo Paz-y-Miño, Avelina Espinosa
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Automated state of play: rethinking anthropocentric rules of the game [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Automation of play has become an ever more noticeable phenomenon in the domain of video games, expressed by self-playing game worlds, self-acting characters, and non-human agents traversing multiplayer spaces.
Fizek, Sonia
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Review of Studies on Visual Perception in Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus): The Muller-Lyer Illusion, Amodal and Modal Completion

open access: yesAnimal Behavior and Cognition, 2017
Few avian studies on optical illusions are directly comparable to those with humans. Grey parrots that have some referential use of English speech, however, allow for such comparative studies, as these birds can be tested just as are humans, by asking ...
Irene M. Pepperberg
doaj   +1 more source

Transforming magnets

open access: yes, 2014
Based on the form-invariant of Maxwell's equations under coordinate transformations, we extend the theory of transformation optics to transformation magneto-statics, which can design magnets through coordinate transformations.
He, S., Sun, F.
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Luminance cues constrain chromatic blur discrimination in natural scene stimuli [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Introducing blur into the color components of a natural scene has very little effect on its percept, whereas blur introduced into the luminance component is very noticeable.
McGraw, Paul V.   +2 more
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The Café Wall Illusion: Local and Global Perception from Multiple Scales to Multiscale

open access: yesApplied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, 2017
Geometrical illusions are a subclass of optical illusions in which the geometrical characteristics of patterns in particular orientations and angles are distorted and misperceived as a result of low-to-high-level retinal/cortical processing.
Nasim Nematzadeh, David M. W. Powers
doaj   +1 more source

Whitening toothpaste containing activated charcoal, blue covarine, hydrogen peroxide or microbeads: which one is the most effective?

open access: yesJournal of Applied Oral Science, 2019
The efficacy of whitening toothpastes is questionable and controversial. Clinicians, patients and researchers have expressed concern with whitening toothpastes due to the risk of wearing the dental structure and the potential for disappointment if the ...
Vanessa Torraca Peraro Vaz   +6 more
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