Science of Altered Perception at SM City Pampanga

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    Science of Altered Perception is the newest attraction at SM City Pampanga. SOAP is open Mondays to Sundays, from 10:00am to 9:00pm. Published rate is at 190 pesos for walk-ins.

    This exhibit brings out the wonders of science, technology, and art through its unique fusion of amazing 3D art displays, optical illusions, and eye-boggling tricks.

    All these entertaining facilities teach us about vision, perception, the human brain and science so it will be easier to perceive why our eyes see things which our brain cannot understand.

    Trick Arts – Trick art is jump in’ into a painting and give it a new whole twist. A total of 45 Arts and 1 center piece. Gadgets Station – 20 Interactive gadgets are featured at the Science of Altered Perception.

    Lilac Chaser – It illustrates Troxler fading, complementary colors, negative aftereffects, and is capable of showing colors outside the display gamut.

    Ruben Vase Illusion – The illusion generally presents the viewer with a psychological selection of two interpretations of each of which is valid.

    Café Wall Illusion – The Café Wall Illusion has helped neuropsychologists study the way in which visual information is processed by the brain

    Jastrow Illusion – The Jastrow Illusion is a size illusion where two curved shapes of identical measurements are placed next to each other. The Ebbinghaus Illusion (sometimes called the “Titchener Illusion”) is an optical illusion of relative size perception. Two circles of identical size are placed near to each other and one is surrounded by large circles while the other is surrounded by small circles; the first central circle then appear smaller than the second central circle.

    Busy Body – Due to persistence of vision, viewers looking in through the passing slits see each other picture on the strip seem to be suddenly replaced by the next in sequence

    Floating Cube – The illusion is based on the hollowed face. The illusion relies on the fact that we are reconstructing a 3D word from a 2D representation on a screen.

    YES or NO – This is an optical illusion images which exploit graphical similarities and other properties of visual system interpretation between two or more distinct image forms.

    Pendulum Wave – Sometimes just witnessing a physics demonstration can inspire students to look more deeply into conceptual nature of the demonstration and strengthen their critical thinking skills. The Pendulum Wave is a device that provides such experience.

    3D Crossed Eyed – Photography has an inherent limitation in the camera typically capture images that have an illusion of three dimensional depth.

    Animated illusion – This works the other way around. You can make the “brainthinksomething” is moving even when it’s not.

    Hollow-Face illusion – The Hollow-Face illusion is an optical illusion in which the perception of a concave mask of a face appears as a normal convex face. This illusion reveals the significant role of prior experience, and thus hypotheses or expectations, in the perceptual process.

    Mirage – Two types of images exist in nature: real and virtual. A real image is one in which light rays actually come from the image. In a virtual image, they appear to come from the reflected image.

    Head on a Table – This optical illusion uses mirrors to create the effect that you have lost your head. When you view this exhibit from a frontal perspective, without anyone standing behind the table, it appears to simply be a room with a table up against the back wall.

    Checker Illusion – The squares marked A and B are the same shade of gray. The visual system needs to determine the color of objects in the world.

    True Mirror – People have different reactions to seeing themselves for the first time in a True Mirror. Some prefer the image they see, others do not.

    Production : The Illusion Dance Station – With the use of green screen and the Chroma effect, visitors can experience this Illusion Dance Station. Visitors can visualize a new out of this world set up even just at a green screen. Visitors will also task to wear a costume for an added illusion dance effect.

    Mystery Images (cognitive, literal and Paradox images) – A portion of SOAP is full with different mystery images. These are photos that are characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality. The information gathered by the eye is processed in the brain to give a perception that does not suit with physical measurement of the stimulus source.

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    Former actor now Quezon City Congressman Alfred Vargas was stunned upon waking up and checking his phone with 50 text messages and a lot of missed calls mostly coming from media men.

    All of them wanted to get his side because of the viral video of Secretary Leila de Lima that spread in the social media during her birthday party together with alleged convicted drug lord Herbert Colangco.

    Congressman Alfred’s name was dragged because the camp of Sec de Lima said that it was Alfred who was in the video seated beside her and not Colangco.

    The Fifth District of Quezon City aired hi side through a public statement. (as published)

    Here is Cong Alfred’s statement titled:“Alfred Vargas Wrongly Identified as Ampang Dolangco in De Lima Video”:

    A video showing Senator Leila De Lima singing at her birthday party has gone viral because a voice in the background is narrating that the senator was singing a song for one of her alleged protected big time drug lords, Herbert ‘Ampang’ Colangco.

    At the background, however, is not Ampang Colangco but 5th District-Quezon City Representative Alfred Vargas.

    Vargas, who was part of the Liberal Party slate in the May 2016 elections, was celebrating the senator’s birthday that day upon the invitation of Senator De Lima.

    “I was at Senator Leila De Lima’s birthday party last year at the DOJ quadrangle as guest,” says Vargas. “I just want to make it clear that it was me in the video and not Mr. Colangco.

    “I had sore eyes at that time so I had to wear sunglasses and could not properly shake hands with everybody.

    “It’s a simple case of mistaken identity, perhaps because the video was blurred,” said Vargas.

    “Let’s just be careful in making big assumptions like this and be more discerning in forwarding videos that come from unknown sources."

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