{"id":372,"date":"2010-05-10T18:27:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T23:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/?p=372"},"modified":"2010-05-31T07:22:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T12:22:05","slug":"the-monkey-business-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/10\/the-monkey-business-illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monkey Business Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My submission to the Best Illusion of the Year competition at this year&#8217;s Vision Sciences Society meeting is titled &#8220;The Monkey Business Illusion.&#8221; The contest judges selected it to be among the 10 finalists, so I got to present it to an audience of more than 1000 people attending the show this evening (May 10, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>The audience voted for their favorite illusions, with the top 3 finishers winning cool illusion sculptures.  Although I wasn&#8217;t one of the three winners, I had a great time with the show.  There were some truly wonderful illusions this time.  <\/p>\n<p>I gave my presentation while wearing a full-body gorilla suit (any excuse to wear a gorilla suit in front of 1000 of my colleagues is a good thing!). I&#8217;m hoping to be able to post a video of my presentation soon.  In the meantime, try the illusion for yourself<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IGQmdoK_ZfY&#038;sns=em\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"240\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IGQmdoK_ZfY&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xd0d0d0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IGQmdoK_ZfY&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xd0d0d0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My submission to the Best Illusion of the Year competition at this year&#8217;s Vision Sciences Society meeting is titled &#8220;The Monkey Business Illusion.&#8221; The contest judges selected it to be among the 10 finalists, so I got to present it to an audience of more than 1000 people attending the show this evening (May 10, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiments","category-gorillas","category-illusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}