Get enough dots together and your faulty eyeballs start seeing things. With random dot patterns, a simple move of the dots by a few degrees can create trippy concentric circles or wild swirls that ...

If you overlay a copy of random dots on itself, and then rotate it, magic — or, rather, a trick of geometry and pattern recognition — happens. As Numberphile’s Tadashi Tokieda (who previously brought ...

The FLEXPOINT ® MVstereo laser module from LASER COMPONENTS is now also available with truly random patterns with 31,806 or 47,708 dots. These patterns are generated completely randomly; even in ...

The Projected Pattern Correlation (PROPAC) technique is an optical 3D measurement technique, which is able to measure deformations of diffuse scattering surfaces spatially. The achievable measurement ...

The fast and accurate quantification of small numbers of elements, called subitizing, has been explained by assuming either a limited capacity for immediate apprehension of numerosity, a fast ...