{"id":174,"date":"2009-09-04T16:06:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T14:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yloveillusions.com\/en\/?p=174"},"modified":"2009-05-23T16:14:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T14:14:09","slug":"visual-illusion-explains-pointillist-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/2009\/09\/04\/visual-illusion-explains-pointillist-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual illusion explains pointillist painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Munger explains how a classical pointillist painting from Seurat (<em>Sunday Afternoon at La Grande Jatte<\/em>) may seem to have colours changing when you move in front of it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/monnier1.jpg\" alt=\"monnier1\" title=\"monnier1\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/monnier1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/monnier1-400x269.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It may come from an optical illusion generated by the painter using myriads of little points of different colours.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/monnier2.jpg\" alt=\"monnier2\" title=\"monnier2\" width=\"400\" height=\"406\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/monnier2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/monnier2-394x400.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All about it at <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/cognitivedaily\/2009\/02\/visual_illusion_may_explain_th.php\">Dave&#8217;s scientific blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Munger explains how a classical pointillist painting from Seurat (Sunday Afternoon at La Grande Jatte) may seem to have colours changing when you move in front of it. It may come from an optical illusion generated by the painter using myriads of little points of different colours. All about it at Dave&#8217;s scientific blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}