Optical illusions of the year
Optical illusions of the year
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Have a look at some of these, optical illusions always fascinate, I’ve never seen one that rotates in both directions around horizontal and vertical axes before.
Have a look at some of these, optical illusions always fascinate, I’ve never seen one that rotates in both directions around horizontal and vertical axes before.
where once I used to scintillate
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Very cool.
On the second one, I got yellow dots going left to right, but couldn't see red and green dots going from top to bottom.
Why is this?
On the second one, I got yellow dots going left to right, but couldn't see red and green dots going from top to bottom.
Why is this?
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I'm blind as a very short sighted bat. With my glasses on and phone a couple of feet away I could only see yellow. Glasses off and a few cm away I could oly see red and green
Just tell 'em I'm broke and don't come round here no more.
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The Chunder Thunder Illusion (direct link) is brilliant.
Warning - it might be seizure inducing...
Warning - it might be seizure inducing...
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I'm also as blind as a Dienst. Maybe I would have the same results. I haven't tried yet.GeenDienst wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2019 12:34 amI'm blind as a very short sighted bat. With my glasses on and phone a couple of feet away I could only see yellow. Glasses off and a few cm away I could oly see red and green
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I can make it work as advertised on my proper computer screen, if I kind of blur my vision (even more) as I try to make it switch. I wonder if that one has its tiny dots interacting with the different screens in some way.mikeh wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2019 1:38 pmI'm also as blind as a Dienst. Maybe I would have the same results. I haven't tried yet.GeenDienst wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2019 12:34 amI'm blind as a very short sighted bat. With my glasses on and phone a couple of feet away I could only see yellow. Glasses off and a few cm away I could oly see red and green
I like the one where the dot is going round, bamboozled by the circles going round that.
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If you look at the sides then you can switch to seeing lines going down, if you look at top or bottom you can switch to seeing lines going left-right.
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The Ames' Window Illusion, 50 years old this year, remains one of the very best. Look what goes on later, around 3m and 4m, when he sticks a match box to it, and then fixes a ruler through the window. It becomes quite mindboggling. Even though the guy has already shown you it is just a flat piece of cardboard, with a vertical pin so you can make it rotate around a vertical axis on a turntable, you just can't make yourself see the reality of what is happening. At least, I can't.
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Lifted from the Daily Star who lifted it from Reddit:
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An oldie but goldie - but a nice way of revisiting it:
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Two things.IvanV wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 3:40 pmThe Ames' Window Illusion, 50 years old this year, remains one of the very best. Look what goes on later, around 3m and 4m, when he sticks a match box to it, and then fixes a ruler through the window. It becomes quite mindboggling. Even though the guy has already shown you it is just a flat piece of cardboard, with a vertical pin so you can make it rotate around a vertical axis on a turntable, you just can't make yourself see the reality of what is happening. At least, I can't.
1 - that is an ace illusion, the ruler magically cutting through the window was the best bit,
2 - the clip is from The Curiosity Show, a science/education program for kids made in Australia when I was growing up. It was my favourite thing ever at the time (even more than Star Wars), I would watch every episode that I could. It helped make me into the nerd I am today.
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Doesn’t have a strong effect on me. On SGU they said the effect size varies between people.
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It's a black splodge on a dotty background to me. What's the illusion?
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The illusion is that the black splodge/hole seems to grow.basementer wrote: ↑Thu Jun 16, 2022 11:49 amIt's a black splodge on a dotty background to me. What's the illusion?
It works for me - every time I shift my focus (e.g. from the top to the bottom of the hole) it looks like the hole expands for about a quarter of a second, and if I keep moving my eyes around the hole it continually grows.
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Yep, works for me. Every time I shift the point I'm looking at the blob seems to be growing. Took me a while to recognise that it was a fixed picture and wasn't an animation.
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BTW, if I'm a bit too far away it no longer works. I have to be close enough that my peripheral vision gets involved.
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I only noticed it happening after I read this. Didn't move in between looks.jaap wrote: ↑Thu Jun 16, 2022 12:06 pmThe illusion is that the black splodge/hole seems to grow.basementer wrote: ↑Thu Jun 16, 2022 11:49 amIt's a black splodge on a dotty background to me. What's the illusion?
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Not exactly oioty but interesting nevertheless.
2nd picture down, big red hat, do you see anything strange when you first look at it?
2nd picture down, big red hat, do you see anything strange when you first look at it?
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I am rubbish at this sort of thing. It just looks to me like the wearer has a nasty rash all around her mouth.tenchboy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 16, 2022 9:26 pmNot exactly oioty but interesting nevertheless.
2nd picture down, big red hat, do you see anything strange when you first look at it?
Something something hammer something something nail
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S'worse than that!sTeamTraen wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 9:52 pmI am rubbish at this sort of thing. It just looks to me like the wearer has a nasty rash all around her mouth.tenchboy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 16, 2022 9:26 pmNot exactly oioty but interesting nevertheless.
2nd picture down, big red hat, do you see anything strange when you first look at it?
When I first scrolled down to that picture, for a full second or so, I imagine because there are no eyes showing and my mind was trying to make it into a face, I saw just a monstrous chin with a tiny mouth between the hat and the rest of her body like some sort of Mrs Potatohead. Her collar bone marked the base of the chin, her neck was the flat front and her mouth the same as in the picture.*
It was only when I found that patch of light to the left that it transformed in my mind into the proper picture.
It happened a couple of times afterwards but for progressively shorter times when I went back to it if I started at the top and scrolled down but didn't work if I had left the picture there and then clicked back to it.
*Once it had transformed in my mind to the proper picture I couldn't get back to seeing Mrs Potatohead but when it happened afterwards I was just able to see which bits were where. It doesn't happen at all now.
Add note: I have only ever once seen the craters on the moon (in pictures of the moon); my mind always shows them to me as raised pimples: maybe there is a connection.
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Yes - I got it too!! Like a giant fleshy potato head for about 4-5 seconds. But now, no matter what I try I can't get it back.tenchboy wrote: ↑Sat Jun 18, 2022 7:07 amS'worse than that!sTeamTraen wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 9:52 pmI am rubbish at this sort of thing. It just looks to me like the wearer has a nasty rash all around her mouth.tenchboy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 16, 2022 9:26 pmNot exactly oioty but interesting nevertheless.
2nd picture down, big red hat, do you see anything strange when you first look at it?
When I first scrolled down to that picture, for a full second or so, I imagine because there are no eyes showing and my mind was trying to make it into a face, I saw just a monstrous chin with a tiny mouth between the hat and the rest of her body like some sort of Mrs Potatohead. Her collar bone marked the base of the chin, her neck was the flat front and her mouth the same as in the picture.
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I find it difficult to not see it like that. I can't barely tell how it's supposed to look. I thought it was another one of those tedious f.cking Dall-E images which are all over the f.cking twitter.bob sterman wrote: ↑Sat Jun 18, 2022 8:47 amYes - I got it too!! Like a giant fleshy potato head for about 4-5 seconds. But now, no matter what I try I can't get it back.tenchboy wrote: ↑Sat Jun 18, 2022 7:07 amS'worse than that!sTeamTraen wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 9:52 pm
I am rubbish at this sort of thing. It just looks to me like the wearer has a nasty rash all around her mouth.
When I first scrolled down to that picture, for a full second or so, I imagine because there are no eyes showing and my mind was trying to make it into a face, I saw just a monstrous chin with a tiny mouth between the hat and the rest of her body like some sort of Mrs Potatohead. Her collar bone marked the base of the chin, her neck was the flat front and her mouth the same as in the picture.
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