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ExNET > Exhibits > Group 5 > Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat
(vision - perspective, size & distance, expectation)

Cheshire Cat illustrates some of the things that can happen when each of our eyes sees a completely different image. At this exhibit, visitors look through a viewer at a friend’s face with one eye while the other eye looks at a mirror on which is reflected a white screen off to the side of the exhibit. By sweeping a hand quickly over the white screen, the eye looking in the mirror sees the motion. Motion is one thing that grabs the brain’s visual attention; this distraction causes the viewed friend’s face, or parts of it, to momentarily disappear. The eyes and smile will usually be last to disappear.

Exhibit Specs
54"w X 79"h X 62"d
2.0 amps @ 120 volts
200 lbs.
Exhibit Materials
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Cheshire Cat 1
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Cheshire Cat 2
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