Web Stuff Scan » Puzzles http://www.webstuffscan.com Scanning the Web for the good stuff Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:07:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Turn the fish puzzle http://www.webstuffscan.com/2006/12/14/turn-the-fish-puzzle/ http://www.webstuffscan.com/2006/12/14/turn-the-fish-puzzle/#comments Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:04:04 +0000 webstuffscan http://www.webstuffscan.com/2006/12/14/turn-the-fish-puzzle/ Turn the fish - matchstick puzzleEight matchsticks?Ç are arranged to form a fish swimming to the left as shown on the right. Can you make it swim to the right by moving 3 sticks??Ç

Click here if you are unable to solve it! You can also download a printable PDF version here. This puzzle was probably first devised by the famous puzzle guru in Japan – Kobon Fujimura

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]]> http://www.webstuffscan.com/2006/12/14/turn-the-fish-puzzle/feed/ 1 Cool optical illusion – Rotating snakes! http://www.webstuffscan.com/2006/12/07/cool-optical-illusion-rotating-snakes/ http://www.webstuffscan.com/2006/12/07/cool-optical-illusion-rotating-snakes/#comments Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:40:41 +0000 webstuffscan http://www.webstuffscan.com/2006/12/07/cool-optical-illusion-rotating-snakes/ Yesterday I came across this cool optical illusion page. Whenever you move your eye, it appears that the circles are rotating. But if you keep your eye steady for sometime you realize that it is just an illusion!

This is called peripheral drift illusion. This is generated by presentation of a sawtooth luminance in the visual periphery.
Rotating snakes - optical illusion

Further Reading
Akiyoshi’s illusion pages
Peripheral drift illusion

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