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Bee Film I
See how the bee finds the 'correct' blue flower in the foreground within the 'Bee Matrix' developed by Lottolab. The unique flight arena is not only used for behavioural experiments on bumblebees, but also as an installation in galleries and museums around the UK.
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Bee Film II
Watch a bee foraging from an artificial Plexigias flower within the 'Bee Matrix' developed by Lottolab. The unique flight arena is not only used for behavioural experiments on bumblebees, but also as an installation in galleries and museums around the UK.
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Bee Film III
Examples of bees foraging from an artificial Plexigias flower within the 'Bee Matrix' developed by Lottolab. The unique flight arena is not only used for behavioural experiments on bumblebees, but also as an installation in galleries and museums around the UK.
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Mosaic World Pre Evo
See an artificial life agent that moves accordingly to the output of a randomly generated neural network. Agent is unable to find the blue surfaces, but instead falls into a hole. For more information see published papers.
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EvoDevo
See an example of how complexity can emerge by evolving the rules that govern the case of development in this artificial life system.
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Mosaic World Post Evo
See a movie of a single artificial life agent forma population of agents in Mosaic world after they've evolved to distinguish blue surfaces under different colours of illumination. For more information see published papers.
Film clips showing bumblebees learning in the Bee Matrix
Film clips show examples of synthetic robots learning to ‘eat’ colour
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Size
See how objets of different size, orientation and distance from the eye can generate identical retinal projections. It is because images are ambiguous that we see illusions.
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Colour
See how the quality of light that falls onto the eye (window in this case) from one surface can generate very different stimuli under different colours of light. It is because images are ambiguous that we see illusions.
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Motion
See how - as far as the eye is concerned - two bars that move in different directions create identical retinal stimuli. It is because images are ambiguous that we see illusions.
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Cube I
See the coloured cube illusion, where the central tile on the upper surface appears brown and the central tile on the lower surface appears bright orange. Yet the two tiles are the same.
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Cube II
See the 'Sofa Illusion'. The upper surface appears dark grey and the lower one light grey. And yet, the surfaces are physically the same.
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Table
Film clips show why the images of the world are inherently ambiguous
Film clips of the most popular colour illusions on this website