Optical Illusions In Beau Lotto's Ted Talk

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In Beau Lotto’s Ted Talk “Optical Illusions Show How We See” we could appreciate how our perception can vary based on the context. He explained the importance that color has in our lives and all of the factors that can alter how we perceive a color, such as illumination. Lotto showed how the light that comes through our eyes could mean anything, however it is our brain’s job to give meaning to that information by using patterns, associations, knowledge from past experiences, etc. As an example, he showed two squares with a dot in the middle, the one in the left was green and the one in the right is red. Under the two squares there was a picture of a desert with a dot in the middle as well. We needed to look at the dot between the colored squares

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