
You can also try and find someone who is “ stereoblind” and show them the illusion. The image stays the same, but it has to go in both eyes for the illusion of depth to occur. You can prove this to yourself by making the effect disappear by closing one eye. There are many depth illusions which aren’t stereo illusions, but this isn’t one of them. Kim Scarborough CC BY-SA 3.0 usĬhromostereopic illusions are true stereo illusions – they require the information to be combined across both eyes. Anaglyph 3-D photo of Edward Kemeys’s lion statue outside the Art Institute of Chicago, in Illinois. The superimposed images are why the film looks funny if you take the glasses off. Your visual system combines the image and ‘discovers’ depth information, adding to the 3D perception of the objects shown. This is how 3D cinema works – you wear red-green or polarising classes and the 3D parts of the film present two superimposed images, each image filtered out by only one lens, putting slightly different images in each eye. The third reason this effect is weird to me is that stereo-depth illusions usually require two images, separately presented to each eye. I’m in the minority, so if you’re like me this reverse of the image above should look more natural: the iris set deeper than the surrounding eye. For most people it is red, with blue looking deeper or further away. People also differ in which colour looks closer.

This isn’t just in terms of strength, although obviously I’m one of those it hits hard. The second is that there are big individual differences in perception of the effect. Like, guys, did you all know and weren’t telling? The first is that I’d thought I’d seen all the illusions, and this one is completely new to me. The effect is called chromostereopsis and it is weirding me out, for several reasons. Because the colours appear at different depths they even appear to glide separately when I move my head from side to side, something which is obviously impossible for a static image. Sometimes it disappears for a few seconds before snapping back in. I can enhance the effect by blinking rapidly, turning the brightness up on my screen and viewing in a dark room. Image: CC-BY Tom Stafford 2022įor me though, there is an incredibly strong depth illusion – the blue and the red appear as if they are at different distances. Some people don’t see anything special: just a blue iris in a red eye. The default entries are: indexĬhoose whether to store items data by column or row in your datafile.The effect varies for different people.


If you are using a slider, what do you want the granularity of the slider to be? Missing column headers will be replaced by default entries, with the exception of itemText and type, which are required. The question text font color responseColor Response object layout e.g., ‘horiz’ or ‘vert’ itemColor The type of rating e.g., ‘choice’, ‘rating’, ‘slider’, ‘free-text’ responseWidthĪ sequence of tick labels for options e.g., yes, no layout Items A csv / xlsx file To get started, we recommend selecting the “Open/Create Icon” which will open up a template forms spreadsheet A csv/xlsx file should have the following key, value pairs / column headers: index Governs the duration for which the stimulus is presented. The time that the stimulus should first appear. The name should contain only letters, numbers and underscores (no punctuation marks or spaces). Everything in a PsychoPy ® experiment needs a unique name.
