Hi, Thursday, January 16, 2003, 3:13:56 PM, you wrote:
> The purpose of the exercise was to prove to them how quickly we assume that > we "get" all the contents of pictures, without really _looking_. there's a well-known photograph by HCB of a landscape in Brie, showing an avenue of trees curving away into the distance over a flat plain. I've known the picture for years but it never clicked until about 2 years ago that the crown of the trees forms a heart shape. After I realised this I wondered if I was stupid to have missed it, so I showed the picture to quite a few people and asked them to describe it. Nobody mentioned the heart shape, but when I pointed it out everybody immediately saw it and mentally kicked themselves for missing it! I wonder if HCB saw it... --- Bob
