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Exhibits

Cheshire Cat

Make your partner's face disappear, leaving only a smile.

Where: Bechtel Gallery 3: Seeing & Listening

Exhibit Developers: Robert Larue (Bob) Miller and Sally Duensing, 1978

Phenomena: Binocular Fusion, Cues: Dominant, Depth Perception, Fatigue, Feedback, Information and Noise, Motion Detection, Selective Awareness, Motion: Visual Motion Detection, Time Effects in Perception

Keywords: illusions, mirrors

Collections: Seeing the Light

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Science activity demonstrating visual perception illusion

Cheshire Cat

Make a friend disappear, leaving only a smile behind.