Ridley Scott’s swords-and-sandals classic GLADIATOR was released 23 years ago today. An enormous production full of star names, the making of story is as epic as the film itself.
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This deceiving grid tricks you into thinking there's a curved line somewhere, but you can't find it. The purposefully placed gray lines will induce your peripheral vision to interpolate curved lines
[image by Lesha Porche. Explanation: https://t.co/QdzV1SdnwU]
In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion [video from The Curiosity Show: https://t.co/DF82ASFj1a]
Remembering the grandfather of stop-motion animation, the King behind Kong and
@Ray_Harryhausen's mighty mentor, Mr Willis H. O'Brien, born today in 1886.