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Title: Cool illusions
Post by: Lise on Dec 31 06 08:31
[FONT size=6]Cool Illusions[/FONT]

 
If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink. If you stare at the black + in the center, the moving dot turns to green. Now, concentrate on the black + in the center of the picture. After a short period of time, all the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you will only see a green dot rotating if you're lucky! It's amazing how our brain works. There really is no green dot, and the pink ones really don't disappear. This should be proof enough, we don't always see what we think we see.

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Title: Re: Cool illusion
Post by: kitten on Dec 31 06 08:35
Isn't that weird!  Nice illusion.
Title: Re: Cool illusion
Post by: Lise on Dec 31 06 08:37
Here's another old one.

  [img style="WIDTH: 614px; HEIGHT: 734px" height=769 src="vny!://i12.tinypic.com/2jd2p8m.gif" width=700]
Title: Re: Cool illusion
Post by: P.C. on Dec 31 06 08:42
Those are VERY cool.
Title: Re: Cool illusion
Post by: kitten on Dec 31 06 08:43
I like that one.  It seems that if you look at it long enough it starts to rotate.  
Title: Re: Cool illusion
Post by: P.C. on Dec 31 06 08:51
It's rotating for me the second I look at it.
Title: Re: Cool illusion
Post by: Goats on Dec 31 06 09:08
Have another drink! Its working for me. LOL

  ok gotta run here, Im getting harrased, take care.

  Russ

  PS ok its harrassed. RSS is making fun of my spelling.
Title: Re: Cool illusion
Post by: Lise on Jan 01 07 07:07
[img style="WIDTH: 600px; HEIGHT: 548px" height=574 src="vny!://i16.tinypic.com/3zw4vtk.gif" width=653]

  Watch closely and they start to wave.
Title: Re: Cool illusions
Post by: kitten on Jan 01 07 07:10
Nice!  You have to keep your eyes perfectly still on order to stop it from waving.  Very neat.
Title: Re: Cool illusions
Post by: Lise on Jan 01 07 07:10
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  Watch - the 'cushion' starts to 'expand'.  
Title: Re: Cool illusions
Post by: kitten on Jan 01 07 07:17
It actually looks like it's breathing!
Title: Re: Cool illusions
Post by: Russ on Jan 01 07 08:09
Ive always found these a bit eerie to me. I do like them, but a bit unerving when you realize how easily your eyes can be tricked.
Title: Re: Cool illusions
Post by: P.C. on Jan 01 07 09:15
So this is bizarre.  I've had a couple glasses of wine (or 3), and they are not moving at all.

When I looked at them earlier, they were alive, instantly.
Title: Re: Cool illusions
Post by: Orik on Jan 01 07 09:26


[img style="width: 245px; height: 109px;" src="/forums/richedit/smileys/8.gif[/img]


ahhh i know
try refreshing the page and whatever you do do not hit the escape key or you will turn of all the gifs and emotes

 
Title: Re: Cool illusions
Post by: P.C. on Jan 01 07 09:28
Could it be that things are clearer to me after a few cocktails ?   What a frightening thought.
Title: Re: Cool illusions
Post by: Thread Cop on Jan 01 07 10:01
Those are some magnificent images. Whoever was the creater did a great job! (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/2.gif)  
Title: Re: Cool illusions
Post by: Russ on Jan 01 07 10:14
P.C. wrote:
 Could it be that things are clearer to me after a few cocktails ?   What a frightening thought.[/DIV]
 See! I AM right once in a while, lol.
Title: Re: Cool illusions
Post by: Lise on Jan 02 07 11:01
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  Guess how many people you're looking at?
Title: Re: Cool illusions
Post by: Lise on Jan 02 07 11:05
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  Make sure you are relaxed. Keep your eyes on the lighter areas where the black lines intersect. You should probably notice circles coming from the center of the design. The trick is that a light color appears brighter when it contrasts against a darker color. So, people see the areas adjacent to the intersections to be slightly brighter, causing what appears to be circles.

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