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Permalink Reply by Susi Bocks on June 21, 2011 at 11:26am

how in the heck does this work??? bizarre!

Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on June 21, 2011 at 11:41am

I put this one up some months ago.

Permalink Reply by George on June 21, 2011 at 11:58am

Yes it should, because both rotation's silhouettes are identical

Permalink Reply by Park Bierbower on June 21, 2011 at 12:03pm

the colours in the two on the sides likely create the distinction in movement.

Permalink Reply by Park Bierbower on June 21, 2011 at 12:05pm

actually, they do.  They create depth and remove the relative symmetry of the silhouette.  yay, mystery solved.

Permalink Reply by Ian Mason on June 21, 2011 at 1:51pm

For me all three of them change!

Permalink Reply by Steph S. on June 21, 2011 at 4:32pm

That's very cool!  I love that website -- I visit it daily -- it has all kinds of neat stuff -- especially the lolcats

: ). 

Thanks for sharing that!

Permalink Reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on September 9, 2011 at 2:44pm

Here's a new illusion. When you focus on one box, the other one moves.

Permalink Reply by Johan Fruh on September 9, 2011 at 4:15pm

Here's an illusion that I found pretty amazing... shows us in a very frightening way, how our brains just don't always work properly...

I suggest you look through the whole video, by focusing on the center point. Then look at the video a second time, focusing on the faces... and you'll notice the difference.

Permalink Reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on September 10, 2011 at 7:57pm

The way the producers lined up the eyes, I get an illusion of two faces which keep changing expression as they stare at me, like microexpressions. Some of the individual expressions are grim, and one a bit threatening (angry). I think it makes me uneasy because it seems to be faces that I can't read. To compare this to objects, it's as if one stared at a tool which kept flickering between a hammer, a saw, and a toothbrush, and you couldn't tell how to use such a tool.

Permalink Reply by Johan Fruh on September 11, 2011 at 9:11am

I actually saw very horrifying faces, straight from a horror movie. Pointy ears, half human half pig faces, big bulging angry eyes etc...

Strange how the brain that can't grasp something, will automatically turn it into something evil and threatening...

explains a lot of things :p.

Permalink Reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on September 11, 2011 at 3:08pm

Wow! Scary.

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