The math behind visual hallucinations

http://intothecontinuum.tumblr.com/post/19754693526/visual-hallucinations-and-form-constants

by speednoise • 14 years ago

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codesuela• 14 years ago

I showed this to a friend of a friend and he attested it to be amazingly accurate. Also it would make an awesome app if you could apply these transformations to a videostream of your phone, augmented reality style. So you can experience the visual aspect of consuming hallucinogens without any drawbacks.

jisaacstone• 14 years ago

yes! when I close my eyes I usually see something like a checkerbord spiral, only not rotating, and there are several of them centered around different points and intersecting.

mcmire• 14 years ago

Try staring at that spiral honeycomb animation for 30 seconds and then look a white wall. Bet what you see isn't what you expected.

speednoise• 14 years ago

A follow-up that deals with how the mapping was derived from the structure of V1: http://intothecontinuum.tumblr.com/post/19813076775/did-you-...

The math behind visual hallucinations

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