Chapter 7:

Armadillos Dancing Against A Swollen Moon

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• 7.1 Enlarging the moon
• 7.2 Shape of the sky
• 7.3 Decapitation with the blind spot       update April 2007
• 7.4 Gray networks in the morning, dashing specks in the daylight
• 7.5 Floaters and other spots in your eye   update Dec 2014
• 7.6 Streetlight halos
• 7.7 Phosphenes --- psychedelic displays
• 7.8 Humming becomes a stroboscope     update April 2007
• 7.9 Keeping your eye on the baseball   update Dec 2008
• 7.10 Impressionism
• 7.11 Pointillism
• 7.12 Moiré patterns
• 7.13 Op art    update Jul 2008
• 7.14 Depth in oil paintings
• 7.15 Reading in the dark    update Sep 2009
• 7.16 Trailing ghost light
• 7.17 Reflecting eyes
• 7.18 Underwater vision of humans, penguins, and crocodiles
• 7.19 Underwater vision of "four-eyed fish"
• 7.20 Cheshire cat effect
• 7.21 Rhino-optical effect
• 7.22 Flying clouds and Blue Meanies
• 7.23 Pulfrich illusion
• 7.24 Streetlight delay sequence
• 7.25 Mach bands
• 7.26 Upside down world
• 7.27 Inverted shadows, and the blister effect
• 7.28 Peculiar reflection from a Christmas tree ball   update Dec 2007
• 7.29 Random dot moiré patterns
• 7.30 Patterns in television "snow"
• 7.31 Mona Lisa’s smile
• 7.32 Floating, ghostly images of a television screen
• 7.33 Reading through pinholes     update July 2014
• 7.34 Finger colors
• 7.35 Stars seen through a shaft during the daytime
• 7.36 Stargazer's eye sweep
• 7.37 Resolution of earth objects by astronauts
• 7.38 Honeybees, desert ants and polarized light
• 7.39 Haidinger's brush
• 7.40 Colors of shadows
• 7.41 Safety of sunglasses
• 7.42 Spherical fish lens
• 7.43 Depth in red and blue signs
• 7.44 Purkinje's blue arcs
• 7.45 Maxwell's spot
• 7.46 Visual sensations from radiation update Sep 2006 July 2010
• 7.47 Red light for control boards
• 7.48 Superman's x-ray vision
• 7.49 Fireworks illusion    update June 2007
• 7.50 Looking at the ceiling
• 7.51 Mineral eyes  new Sep 2011
• 7.52 Pub trick --- converting a small beer into a large beer   new  Nov 11
• 7.53 Why is the Moon white?   new  Dec 11
• 7.54 Bees and Van Gogh's Sunflowers   new Jun 12
• 7.55 Pub trick -- putting a hole through your hand     new May 2013
• 7.56 Can you hide your shadow    new Aug 2013
• 7.57 Shadows of moving hairs    Dec 2013
• 7.58 Café wall illusion   Feb 2015
• 7.59 Racing for the rail crossing (train-speed illusion)  Mar 2015