September 3rd, 2010 | 
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Infinity Mirror Illusion.
Extremely simple concept with stunning results.
The illusion may look complicated but it was really very easy to make.
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Details of materials and construction for Infinity Mirror Illusion
The sizes and measurements i’ve provided may not be 100% accurate. Feel free to experiment with your own materials and measurements.
1 – 7″ Cardboard lid 1 1/2″ height
1 – 9″ Cardboard lid 1 1/2″ height
1 – 15 bulb LED light strand
1 – 7″ diameter mirror
1 – 1′ X 1′ 1/10″ thick plexiglass or real glass (whichever you prefer — real glass will give a cleaner result)
Take the 7″ Cardboard lid and mark a spot every 24 degrees on the outside rim halfway between the top and the bottom.
That will create 15 marks around the lid for the LED’s
I used a hand drill to create the holes for the LED’s. Make the holes a little smaller than the LED’s so that they’ll fit snug
Push the LED’s into the hole. Push them in far enough so that they visible from the inside.
Cut the bottom of the lid out.
Glue the mirror in the middle of the inside of the 9″ lid.
Place the 7″ ring with LED’s into the 9″ lid. The small ring should sit directly on top of the mirror.
Cut a piece of mirrored window tint and apply it to the plexiglass / glass.
Attached the plexiglass/glass to the top of your lids.
I used duct tape to hold the glass to the cardboard lids then cut black construction paper to cover the sides and back.
I cut a ring out of silver construction paper and placed it on top to hide the duct tape.
I used velcro to hold the battery back to the back or the top of the infinity mirror device.
crazy experiment turning a liquid to a solid with just a touch.. amazing
Costs $25-35 for 500 grams of sodium accitate.
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Ron Barth, President of Resource Furniture (http://www.resourcefurniture.com/space-savers), demonstrates and explains their amazing line of Italian-designed space-savers.
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A brief, interesting clip from National Geographic’s “Ape Genius” documentary, demonstrating problem solving skills in chimpanzees, by requesting cooperation.
Also shows chimpanzees providing assistance to humans, by noticing assistance is needed, and retrieving out of reach objects for their human companions.
As time goes on, it becomes more and more obvious that the great apes are our evolutionary cousins. I would hope everyone viewing this would be able to share in my astonishment and awe at the brilliance displayed by these amazing creatures.
More Information:
http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200703/000020070307A0074590.php
Transcript:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3504_apegeniu.html
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Tags: amazing, animal, ape, assistance, being, chimp, chimpanzee, cooperation, critical, documentary, empathy, evolution, genius, great, human, learn, learning, logic, obstacle, primate, problem, reason, science, simian, solving, teach, teaching, thinking, thought |
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What really sets us apart from our cousins? Our wonderful memory?
No, not that, either.
This video illustrates that our ape cousins far exceed us in short term memory recall skills. A chimp is shown memorizing numbers with remarkable accuracy at lightning speed.
An amazing bit of footage from the National Geographic documentary “Human Ape”.
More Information:
► http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7124156.stm
► http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/human-ape-3173/Overview
Citation:
Inoue, S. and Matsuzaka, T., (2007). Working memory of numerals in chimpanzees. Current Biology 17 No. 23:R1004-5 (doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.10.027)
► http://www.psy.ed.ac.uk/events/Inoue%20and%20Matsuzawa%202007%20CB%20PDF%20Dec%204.pdf
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Tags: amazing, animal, ape, being, brain, chimp, chimpanzee, comparison, critical, documentary, evolution, genius, geographic, great, human, memory, national, neurology, neuroscience, primate, Psychology, science, simian, thinking, thought, versus, vs |
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Another series of animated optical illusions. I created all of these from scratch using photoshop and Lightwave 3D.
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Tags: amazing, brain, disbelief, eyes, greeenpro2009, illusions, impossible, objects, optical, perspective, science |
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