I wish you all the best, and "see" you soon again !


We're gonna have a good time tonight !!!!!





Just make sure not to finish like this at the end !!!

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The Castellers de Vilafranca is a cultural and sporting association whose main objective is to build castells (human towers). It has the status of a public-interest association. Every summer in Catalonia, Spain, teams of "Castellers" can be seen competing against each other to see who can build the highest human tower. Every catalan town has their own team or "Colla" made up of men, woman and children. Taking directions from a "Cap de colla" (Captain of the Colla), the Castellers form a solid foundation of packed bodies, linking arms and hands together in an intricate way that will carry the weight of several tones.











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Christmas Lights - The Christmas Lights illusion, by visual illusion artist Gianni A. Sarcone, is also based on Leviant's Enigma. Notice the appearance of a flowing motion along the green-yellow stripes.


The Enigma Illusion - As you view the Enigma image, notice how the concentric purple rings appear to fill with rapid circular motion, as if millions of tiny and barely visible cars were driving around a track. The illusory motion is driven by microsaccades: small, involuntary eye movements that occur during visual fixation.


Enigmatic Eye - Look at the center of the pupil and you will see the surrounding purple rings fill with rapid illusory motion. Neuroscientist and engineer Jorge Otero-Millan's tribute to Leviant features the illusory motion seen in Enigma, and it also reflects the role of eye movements in the perception of the illusion.


Kitaoka's Op Art - Hatpin Urchin, by Kitaoka, dramatically demonstrates the importance of eye movements in the perception of this kinetic illusion.


MacKay Rays - This illusion, created in 1957 by neuroscientist Donald M. MacKay, shows that simple patterns of regular or repetitive stimuli, such as radial lines (called "MacKay rays") can induce the perception of shimmering or illusory motion at right angles to those of the pattern. To see the illusion, look at the center of the circle and notice the peripheral shimmering.


The Ouchi Illusion - This illusion is by op artist Hajime Ouchi. Move your head back and forth as you let your eyes wander around the image and notice how the circle and its background appear to shift independently of one another.


The Ouchi Illusion II - This illusion is a contemporary variation on the Ouchi pattern, by Kitaoka.


Bridget Riley's Motion Illusions - This pattern, by op artist Bridget Riley, gives the impression of fast spiraling motion as observers move their eyes around the image.


Bridget Riley's Motion Illusion II - In a tribute to Riley, vision scientist Nick Wade of the University of Dundee in Scotland created an example that features both streaming and shimmering motion, and it is reminiscent of various famous Riley artworks.


The Rotating-Tilted-Lines Illusion - The Rotating-Tilted-Lines Illusion, by vision scientists Simone Gori and Kai Hamburger, is a novel variation of the Enigma effect and Bridget Riley's Blaze. To best observe the illusion, move your head closer and then farther away from your computer screen. As you approach the image, notice that the radial lines appear to rotate counterclockwise. As you move away from the image, they appear to rotate clockwise.


BBC Wallboard - MacKay first observed this effect on the wallboard of a BBC studio: the broadcasting staff had been annoyed by illusory shadows running up and down blank strips between columns of parallel lines.

This was recorded 27.12.2008 in Moscow. A store advertised laptops on sale at 80% off! But what they didn't mention in their advertisements was that there was only 10 available.

Watch the fun antics of the stickman as he is sketched on the full touch screen handset.



Tnx Niels !

Snowflakes are small ice crystals that fall from the sky, forming snow. Snowflakes come in different shapes and sizes. All snowflakes have six points. These pictures show real snow crystals. They were captured by Kenneth G. Libbrecht using a specially designed snowflake photomicroscope.
















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