This is one of the most impressive optical illusions: the blue and green spirals are exactly the same color. Your brain is tricked because it calculates what shade a color is based on the surrounding colors, which are different in each spiral. The fact that it’s possible to “reverse engineer” the brain like this make me wonder how art and theater will utilize this sort of knowledge as neuroscience advances.
Arriving at The Tank on Saturday, it was actually almost everything I had expected. I knew that theaters in the city are usually small, but the professor said he wanted 400 people to come so I was a bit skeptical. Overall though, I really like the feel of it. It was very nostalgic and vintage looking. Although some might consider it to be runned down or dingy I think that really gives it character. You can tell that the people that work there really enjoy the space.
