
The Illusion
One of the walls in my house is decorated with pop-up flowers. The wall is quite a dark grey, and the flowers are white. Eerily, I've noticed that if I stare at one of the flowers, I get the impression that the surrounding flowers appear to turn. This illusion reminded me of some others that I'd seen on the internet of moving circles, like the one below. Seeing the moving circles? Unsettling, isn't it.. And of course, there's the one that went viral about the dress, is it blu

Scanner profiles
For anyone that scans their own film, I came across a set of excellent color profiles that can be used to ensure your scanner is giving you a correct interpretation of your film. Just like display and printing, it is important to calibrate your scanner software so that it gives you accurate colour representation. This profile from Wolf Faust at www.coloraid.de contains a reference file and a colour chart for scanning. Essentially, the scanning software scans the chart and u