A new article on visual processing published in PNAS is making it to the popular media because the discovery of the original phenomenon was by Galileo. One public outlet is the Christian Science Monitor; see: http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/0211/Scientists-solve-optical-illusion-that-baffled-Galileo The original article in PNAS is available here: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/02/05/1310442111.full.pdf+html
One implication of this research is that one should have an easier time reading black text on white backgrounds because the letters would appear sharper (white text on black would be blurry). Now, I could be wrong but I am pretty sure that a vision scientist told me back in 1990s that the opposite was true -- the research was presented at the major vision research conference and the abstract for this research was published in white letters on black background (while the rest of the program was black text on white). I thought this was the justification for all those hard to read powerpoint presentations that had white/yellow letters on dark blue/black/whatever dark background (I just thought that I needed new glasses). So, does this mean that people are now going to have powerpoints with black type on pastel backgrounds? Anything except for those white text on dark backgrounds. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=34130 or send a blank email to leave-34130-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
