‘Why I wrote The Yellow Wallpaper?’

Interactive wallpaper

The colour of the wallpaper in this project changes with the sound of the environment. The original colour of the wallpaper is blue, as the noise of the environment increases, the colour changes to warmer colour to the extent of red. With this effect, the wallpaper brings attention to the noise level of the room and encourages users to decrease the sound level of their conversations. The transf...

Wallpaper Maps

A wallpaper map is a conformal projection of a spherical earth onto regular polygons with which the plane can be tiled continuously. A complete set of distinct wallpaper maps that satisfy certain natural symmetry conditions is derived and illustrated. Though all of the projections have been published before, the family had not been characterized as a whole. Some wallpaper maps generalize to one...

Who Wrote the Torah

The issue of the authorship of the Torah is important for at least this one reason: since the book claims to have been written by a certain writer, it is simply a matter of integrity that that claim is verified. If this claim to authorship is not substantiated, then why should we trust what that book says? In short, if the Torah claims to be written by Moshe, and we find that it is, in fact, no...

Who Wrote the Hippocratic Oath

The wallpaper illusion explained.

In the wallpaper illusion, a repetitive pattern appears to shift from one depth plane to the plane nearest fixation. We measured the timing of this shift for a 6 degrees wide, 3-cpd sinusoidal grating presented in a rectangular envelope; the edges (envelope) of the grating were presented at 20 arcmin of disparity (one period) behind the fixation plane. We asked observers to signal when the segm...