October 2024
The Human Spaceship - Off Balance
... sciences and art practice. This is demonstrated through artworks depicting colour, line and form, using geometric optical illusions to express visual conditions on the International Space Station (ISS) and on the Moon and Mars with investigations...
May 2018
Woman on the Moon
... Rocket’ which was inspired by the iconic Saturn V Apollo rocket (of course), but employed dramatic geometry and optical illusions to express the nature of space travel. This depicted the photo-chromatic markings which, as an artist, I may have...
07 July 2015
New Horizons sees reddish brown Pluto: problems of perception in space
... our solar system. Take, for example, the canals on Mars theory . It existed purely due to optical illusion. There is also the optical illusion recorded by Galileo – wherein for earthlings, Venus appears larger than enormous Jupiter to the naked eye...
23 January 2017
New results from HST show relativistic jets on scales rarely seen before
...HST that has consequently provided original snapshot images of optical jets first taken in the 1990s. Their results ...these apparent velocities greater than the speed of light are optical illusions and thus do not contravene the theory of relatively,...
23 September 2025
Our Moon: A Human History
.... Using quotes from the Apollo astronauts, the author goes on to explain colour, light, shadows and the optical illusions caused by them. In just a few pages, she educates her audience on the basics of the lunar day, lunar...
