[Tig] moving cat illusion

[Bill Topazio]

I must agree with Mr. Claydon that this is not an illusion at all.  For a fact I have seen this experiment reproduced at Jimmy's Corner on multiple occasions, in fact, on my way to work this morning.  I have the scratches to prove it.  She's a tough cat and didn't give up that bottle without a fight.

To their advantage, as Schrödinger has shown, cats can be in many simultaneous states.  The only reason this is even perceptible to us is that a typical cat with a good drink on is a little slow about moving between these states.  On this latter point there is some contention in the field that perhaps the cat moves FASTER between the states and we only perceive a random superposition of multiple visits to the same state. Either way, she's a tough cat and won't give up that bottle without a fight.

On a more mundane note, is it possible that the few frames of movement in the original sequence sets us up for some sort of "motion vector prediction" so we are predisposed to motion.  Then add to that the negative image which changes our idea of light source and hence relative position to the "fixed" (but moving) reference of the rest of the image?

Have Berndt meet me at Jimmy's and we'll get to the bottom of this straight away.

-bt

-----Original Message-----
From: tig-bounces at tig.colorist.org [mailto:tig-bounces at tig.colorist.org] On Behalf Of Laurence Claydon

I have experienced this myself, whilst an undergraduate at the university of warwick.

tig subscribers may be familiar with the much vaunted bubble rise rate experiment, and this particular phenomenon is the nadir of this process.

Laurence Claydon
Director of Imaging
Deluxe Digital London

-----Original Message-----
From: tig-bounces at tig.colorist.org [mailto:tig-bounces at tig.colorist.org] On Behalf Of Rob Lingelbach

Would anyone care to comment on the moving cat illusion at
http://leinroden.de/cat/    ?   something strange is happening..

it's another of Professor Bernd Lingelbach's constructions.

Rob  TIG admin
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Rob Lingelbach
rob at colorist.org