I was reading this [newspaper article about a hovering ship](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/05/ship-hovering-above-sea-cornwall-optical-illusion?)
While I understand how the brain is fooled, why is a camera?
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Mirages don’t happen in your brain, they happen out in the air. The light is bent which distorts the image from what it would otherwise be and that’s what both your eyes and the camera see.
It isn’t like the kinds of optical illusions where a static image appears to be moving because our brain misinterprets the information or where we flipp between one thing or another. It’s more akin to looking through a distorted lens. The lens distorts things for a camera exactly the same way it does for our eyes.
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