Visual effects

Question 1

Flashed Face Distortion Effect

Answer 1

Optical illusion causing faces just outside the direct line of sight to appear grotesque.

Question 2

Pareidolia

Answer 2

Finding faces in everything

Question 3

Iris

Answer 3

Colored part around pupil which contracts and expands to control light

Question 4

Lens

Answer 4

Transparent film behind pupil which focuses light

Question 5

Retina

Answer 5

inner surface of eye which captures image

Question 6

Fovea

Answer 6

Small area of inner eye surface directly behind lens and pupil which perceives detail

Question 7

Optic Nerve

Answer 7

Stretches from lower back of the eye to the brain to transmit signals, also creates a small “blind spot” in the Retina surface

Question 8

Acuity

Answer 8

The level of detail rendered at different places in the cone of vision.

Question 9

Sensitivity

Answer 9

The range of luminance perception in humans, measured in mili-Lamberts (Range is from 10^-6 to 10^10)

Question 10

Rods

Answer 10

Light receptors in the retina which are more sensitive to low light

Question 11

Cones

Answer 11

Light receptors in the retina which perceive color

Question 12

Photosensitive Ganglion Cells

Answer 12

Responsive to light and capable of adjusting iris size and affecting circadian rhythms eve in eyes lacking rods and cones

Question 13

Chromatic Blurring

Answer 13

Unequal refraction reduces acuity, but filtering out one end of the spectrum can help

Question 14

Saccadic Eye Movement

Answer 14

Eyes don’t take pictures like a camera, they scan them like the scanners downstairs

Question 15

Saccades

Answer 15

abrupt jumps from one point to another in a scene, the brain filters out retinal images between these 0.5 second jumps.

Question 16

Gestalt

Answer 16

Structure form elements

Question 17

Simultaneous Contrast

Answer 17

The effect which makes regions which are in fact the same color and shade as each other appear different by surrounding them with different darker or lighter colors.

Question 18

White’s Effect

Answer 18

The case where grey overlapping black surrounded by white appears lighter than grey overlapping white surrounded by black, the cause of this is said to be unknown

Question 19

Afterimage

Answer 19

Suddenly you were gone. Looking at an image with some amount of brightness contrasted next to darkness will leave an imprint in your mind where you see that same shape of brightness in negative as a kind of watermark over whatever you look at directly afterwards

Question 20

Subjective Contour

Answer 20

Your brain finishing the image based on scant visual clues

Question 21

Mach Effect

Answer 21

the alteration of apparent shade based on the adjacency of the value to a contrasting value.
Similar to Simultaneous Contrast, but taken as an edge effect rather than the effect on a region or shape.

Question 22

Razzle Dazzle

Answer 22

A type of camouflage developed to make submarine periscopes less effective

Question 23

Flat Baffles

Answer 23

Angle light into the direct glare zone more often than not and are thus not very effective at shading a space

Question 24

Reflected Glare

Answer 24

what it sounds like

Question 25

Object tracking

Answer 25

the ability of the eye to follow something in motion, such as a ball