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  2. Barber's pole - Wikipedia

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    A "barber's pole" with a helical stripe is a familiar sight, and is used as a secondary metaphor to describe objects in many other contexts. For example, if the shaft or tower of a lighthouse has been painted with a helical stripe as a daymark, the lighthouse could be described as having been painted in "barber's pole" colors.

  3. Stick candy - Wikipedia

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    Candy sticks were the subject of an 1885 song called "The Candy Stick": [6] Oh the candy stick striped like a gay barber’s pole, Was a luscious delight of my infantile soul, Ev’ry penny I earn’d in my little palm burn’d, Till away to the store on the corner I stole, For the candy stick striped like a gay barber’s pole.

  4. Barberpole illusion - Wikipedia

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    The barber's pole is commonly found outside barber shops. In 1929, psychologist J.P. Guilford informally noted a paradox in the perceived motion of stripes on a rotating barber pole. The barber pole turns in place on its vertical axis, but the stripes appear to move upwards rather than turning with the pole. [3]

  5. The real (and disturbing) meaning behind barber poles

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    Barbers have been cutting hair for centuries, but they used to have a longer job description. In medieval times, the professionals were known as barber-surgeons, which is just what it sounds like.

  6. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    The barber pole illusion is a visual illusion that reveals biases in the processing of visual motion in the human brain. Benham's top: When a disk that has lines or colours on it is spun, it can form arcs of colour. Beta movement: Movement that appears to occur when fixed pictures turn on and off. Bezold Effect

  7. Cape Hatteras Lighthouse - Wikipedia

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    Another lighthouse, with helical markings—red and white 'candy cane stripe'-- is the White Shoal Light (Michigan), which is the only true 'barber pole' lighthouse in the United States. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Its distinctive "barber pole" paint job is consistent with other North Carolina black-and-white lighthouses, "each with their own pattern to help ...