A standard digital camera used in a car for stuff like emergency braking has a perceptual latency of a hair above 20 milliseconds. That’s just the time needed for a camera to transform the photons ...
A challenging arithmetic puzzle, presented as an image, tests readers' cognitive abilities. The puzzle involves finding a missing number in a sequence within seven seconds, assessing IQ and critical ...
An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where our eyes perceive something differently from reality, tricking the brain into misinterpreting what it sees. These illusions occur because the brain ...
Many people don’t realise how important maths is, says University of Limerick’s Jason Curran. But he’s trying to see if it could remedy issues in medical imaging. After completing his maths and ...
The problem is efficiency. Maxwell's equations are completely linear, so nonlinear optics relies entirely on materials with nonlinear response to optical fields. Unfortunately these responses deviate ...
Fascinating visual phenomena known as optical illusions cause our brains to interpret reality differently. They can cause us to misinterpret what we see or trick our visual system into perceiving ...