Best movement illusion I have ever seen…. (via Richard Wiseman’s Blog)
This sort of thing doesn’t usually work with my wonky eyes, but this one is pretty spectacular even for me. Click on the image to get the full size version
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This sort of thing doesn’t usually work with my wonky eyes, but this one is pretty spectacular even for me. Click on the image to get the full size version
April 27, 2011 at 9:37 am
just looks like a load of static balls to me? What is the spectacular thing I am meant to be seeing?
April 27, 2011 at 6:53 pm
Mark,
Click through to the original post, and then click again to enlarge the figure. It works then…
Peter
April 27, 2011 at 10:49 am
Eppur si muove!
April 27, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Richard Wiseman has taken the Skeptics movement to the next plane, in his explanations of why people believe certain things that aren’t true. Eventually most Skeptics get fed up with proving negatives in particular cases, and want something more positive. Some go philosophical but – without wishing to be rude about philosophy – I have no taste for that. Wiseman does something that I think is far more interesting, although I (of course) think that he over-reaches himself in explaining away all religious belief in this manner.
April 27, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Perpetual motion solved!
It would be amusing to set up a webpage in which the images really did move but the captions denied it…
April 30, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Nice, but still nowhere near as good as the best one I’ve ever seen, known as the “rotating snakes”: really special (and causes one to question quite how the eye and brain work as a team).
http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/rotsnakee.html
May 4, 2011 at 2:03 pm
This is my favourite motion illusion as it also involves a colour illusion:
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/lastword/2007/10/eye-for-pink.html