Human intuition can be illustrated in analogy to the definition of the stranger by the sociologist Gerog Simmel: ... it is composed of certain measures of nearness and distance. Although some quantities of them characterize all relationships, a special proportion and reciprocal tension produce the particular, formal relation to the “stranger.” - The Stranger 1908, Georg Simmel. Simmel’s principle of the stranger is transferred analogously to the thereof resulting next binary: familiar and unknown. As the meaning of the stranger is disassembled in measures of locality, the familiar and the unknown are components of which the intuition is composed. The moment of intuition is induced by measures of familiarity from perceived materials in local specificity, standing in reciprocal tension to the unknown, that is complemented by generic universality of materials’ properties. In opposition to intuition stands the illusion and different modes of its composition are illustrated by these overlaid analog photographs. “Close ups” of universal material properties overlay captures of loci.