Coolest online optical illusion

telerion

True X X Xian

Posers and Puzzles

25 Sep 04

telerion

True X X Xian

The Lord's Army

Joined: 18 Jul 04
Moves: 8353

25 Sep 04

I don't know if this has been posted here before. Pretty amazing.

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~moraes/illusion.html

Anybody know of some others?

observantU

top of the world

Joined: 04 Jul 04
Moves: 3603

25 Sep 04

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Originally posted by telerion
I don't know if this has been posted here before. Pretty amazing.

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~moraes/illusion.html

Anybody know of some others?

That's marvellous. Can anybody explain it? The most weird part of it is that a particular circular figure rotates only in a certain sense( clockwise or anticlockwise) only. And any two adjacent circular figures rotate in opposite senses.

Cheshire Cat

Sparky

Hendersonville, NC

Joined: 31 Jan 03
Moves: 220186

25 Sep 04

Originally posted by observantU
That's marvellous. Can anybody explain it? The most weird part of it is that a particular circular figure rotates only in a certain sense( clockwise or anticlockwise) only. And any two adjacent circular figures rotate in opposite senses.

I don't know how it works but I bet it has something to do with the rods and cones in your eyes and their amount.......the same reason you can only see some stars out of the corner of your eye.....I hope someone else can elaborate. 🙂

Sure is cool though. 🙂

~ Cheshire Cat 😀

Aynat

Dog Companion

Rain Forest

Joined: 18 Jul 04
Moves: 17859

26 Sep 04

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Originally posted by Cheshire Cat
I hope someone else can elaborate. 🙂

Awesome!

Go back to the illusion and click on the words "this amazing illusion" there is an explanation...if someone has moment...translation please?

There are someother cool illusions as well...

iamatiger

Joined: 26 Apr 03
Moves: 26771

27 Sep 04

Awesome! Can you buy wallpaper like this?

Acolyte

Now With Added BA

Loughborough

Joined: 04 Jul 02
Moves: 3790

27 Sep 04

Originally posted by iamatiger
Awesome! Can you buy wallpaper like this?

Seconded! 😀

fearlessleader

my head

Joined: 03 Oct 03
Moves: 671

27 Sep 04

the so-called 'improved illusion' didn't spin at all for me (although none of them spun much. i did experience a sort of strobe effect at the center of each gradient circle.
http://psych.upenn.edu/backuslab/vss/vss2004/backus2004.html

piderman

Zeist, Holland

Joined: 11 Sep 03
Moves: 19384

27 Sep 04

Originally posted by iamatiger
Awesome! Can you buy wallpaper like this?

Oh, the insomnia! 😉😀