{"id":84086,"date":"2018-10-26T09:42:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T16:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/the-best-illusion-of-the-year-will-make-you-mistrust-your-brain"},"modified":"2018-10-26T09:42:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T16:42:42","slug":"the-best-illusion-of-the-year-will-make-you-mistrust-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/the-best-illusion-of-the-year-will-make-you-mistrust-your-brain","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Best Illusion of the Year\u2019 Will Make You Mistrust Your Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iA5zBZB2dng?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Every year, various members of the illusion community\u2014which is made up of scientists, neurologists, researchers, and even artists\u2014get together to decide which of their recently created mind-melters deserves the honor of <a href=\"http:\/\/illusionoftheyear.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Best Illusion of the Year<\/a>. This year, Japan\u2019s Kokichi Sugihara claimed the top prize with a deceptively simple illusion that plays with how our mind perceives 3D objects.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time Kokichi Sugihara, a mathematician at Meiji University in Japan, has <a href=\"http:\/\/illusionoftheyear.com\/cat\/top-10-finalists\/2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won the Best Illusion of the Year honor<\/a>. Nor is it <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-can-this-spinning-arrow-that-always-points-right-ac-1825710253#_ga=2.55578219.1724800208.1540554540-1843189120.1540554540\" rel=\"nofollow\">the first time his fantastic illusions have shown up on Gizmodo<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/illusionoftheyear.com\/2018\/10\/triply-ambiguous-object\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Triply Ambiguous Object<\/a>, his latest award-winning creation, appears to be a simple 3D structure, with a tiny flag mounted on one of its many corners.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-best-illusion-of-the-year-will-make-you-mistrust-yo-1830021749\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-best-illusion-of-the-year-will-make-...1830021749<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, various members of the illusion community\u2014which is made up of scientists, neurologists, researchers, and even artists\u2014get together to decide which of their recently created mind-melters deserves the honor of Best Illusion of the Year. This year, Japan\u2019s Kokichi Sugihara claimed the top prize with a deceptively simple illusion that plays with how our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}