Visual Illusions Worksheet

	HWMS Visual Arts Visual Illusions Worksheet

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Illusions Worksheet

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HALL OF ILLUSIONS

This is the online version of the HWMS Visual Art department's Visual Illusions Worksheet. This worksheet is initially used in the Visual Arts 7 curriculum as we exercise our apperception (our perception of perception) and our skills in analytical observation.

Students will be asked to examine illusions which reveal the strategies and behaviors of visual cognition while making both objective and subjective observations.

It is possible to complete this worksheet from the Tech Center, from other HWMS computer classrooms, or from home. But in order to be given credit for doing this assignment, your MS Word document should be finally stored on the HW server: My Documents > Visual Arts Projects > Your Class Section Folder

You may download a MS Word version of this worksheet from the MS Visual Arts 7 Course Materials page. It has hyperlinks which will guide you to the sites referenced here.

SEEING IS THINKING
Introduction to Visual Cognition

What we see ... and what we think we see ... is influenced by the way our mind and body process visual information. This process is called visual cognition, and it is not a passive activity.

Just as an artist organizes and composes a picture ... our brain, eyes, and nervous system automatically organize our awareness of what we see.

Artists who understand the way visual cognition works can use the "human operating system" (cognition) to make art based on the harmony between visual cognition and visual expression.

WORKSHEET

Scroll to bottom of this page for instructions

Visual Illusions Worksheet

Getting Started

Steps 1-5: Scroll to the bottom of this page for formatting instructions. After you have formatted and SAVED your MS Word document, continue with Step 6.

Step 6: Please fill in this information:

Cubby Letter-Number: start reply here

Name and Graduating Year: start reply here

Course: start reply here

Instructor: start reply here

PART 1

Visual Illusions

The Hall of Illusions presents groupings of different kinds of visual illusions. Selecting a specific illusion opens a page window dedicated to just that kind of illusion. Sometimes the illusions are presented in an interactive manner. Please read the explanation about the illusions that you have chosen.

TO BEGIN:

1. Start your browsing in The Hall of Illusions with the Color after image|after effect. It explains the optical effect we experienced in class.

2. Sample at least 3 OTHER illusions at The Hall of Illusions site. After visiting each illusion, COPY and PASTE the illusions' url in the space below. Be sure to read the explanations for each illusion.

3. Next, visit The Illusion Forum . Sample at least three illusions at the Illusion Forum. After visiting each illusion, COPY and PASTE the illusions' url in the space below. Be sure to read the explanations for each illusion.

Hall of Illusions

I visited these 3 pages at the Hall of Illusions:

# 1 : Name of illusion: start reply here

URL: start reply here

# 2 : Name of illusion: start reply here

URL: start reply here

# 3 : Name of illusion: start reply here

URL: start reply here

Illusion Forum

I visited these 3 pages at the Illusion Forum:

# 1 : Name of illusion: start reply here

URL: start reply here

# 2 : Name of illusion: start reply here

URL: start reply here

# 3 : Name of illusion: start reply here

URL: start reply here

PART 2

Words and Pictures

Your second activity is to choose one illusion from those that you have observed. It should be one of those that most intrigue you.

1. Name the illusion that you have chosen.

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2. Paste the URL ADDRESS for that illusion in the space below:

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3. Explain WHY this illusion works the way it does. Please use your own words.

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4. Draw a PICTURE of the illusion you chose which can help you to explain it.

(You may need to complete Part 3 and then print this in the Tech Center before you can finish the worksheet by drawing. Then you can draw by hand on the printed paper. However, if you have pasted this into MS Word, you may choose to use the MS Word Drawing Tools).

PART 3

"Art is a lie
that reveals the Truth"

- Pablo Picasso

1. Describe WHAT HAPPENED and HOW YOU FELT when you explored this illusion for the first time.

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2. Describe how an artist might use the illusion you chose in a work of art.

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Format
Instructions

To Begin:

At the Tech Center, open [this] page at hw.com

THE PATH IS: hw.com > academics > departments > msvisual arts > Curriculum >
Visual Arts 7 > Visual Analysis Worksheet

STEPS 1- 6

Then follow these steps:

Step 1: With your web browser's window open to this [web] page, Open a New document in MS Word. Size both windows so that you may refer to both documents at the same time.

Step 2: Highlight this online worksheet, Copy it, and Paste it into your new MS Word document.

(Highlight from lower HW Coat - Of -Arms to upper HW Coat - Of - Arms)

AS YOU COPY THE WORKSHEET ABOVE,

HIGHLIGHT ONLY THE TEXT
ON THE WHITE BACKGROUND,
FROM ONE HW COAT-OF-ARMS

TO THE OTHER

DO NOT
HIGHLIGHT AREAS WITH COLORED BACKGROUNDS

Step 3: Save your document with this file name formula:

Your letter-number_your 3 initials_ILSN_v1

Example: K9_PUP_ILSN_v1

Step 4: Save to :

My Documents > Visual Arts Projects >
Class section folder

(example folder name : 1200_1K1)

Step 5: Browse The Hall of Illusions and/or The Illusion Forum for illusion urls to paste into your MS WORD worksheet.

Step 6: Complete your personalized MS WORD worksheet.

Updated: August 2, 2005