Zack Lynch is author of The Neuro Revolution: How Brain Science Is Changing Our World (St. Martin's Press, July 2009).
Click on the following to witness an amazing illusion, that's real.
NOTE: Click here for an explanation of this illusion - Thanks David
WAY COOL!!!
Permalink to CommentNow we know what you do in your spare time between writing your chapters. Weird but WONDERFUL. Thanks
Permalink to CommentWhat is the explanation for this?
Permalink to CommentThe picture is not animated. Your eyes are making it move. To test this, stare at one spot for a couple seconds and everything will stop moving. Or look at the black center of each circle and it will stop moving. But move your eyes to the next black center and the previous will move after you take your eyes away from it.
Permalink to CommentI printed the image with a color printer (hp photosmart) and the illusion of movement didn't work. Is this due to the difference between the projected light on the computer v. the reflected light on the paper or what?
Two friends and I are looking at this. I am the only one that does not see any movement. Why is that?
Permalink to CommentWow! That's really neat-o! Awesome how somebody knows how to do that kind of stuff!
Permalink to CommentVery strange! When I move my laptop around with this on-screen, or walk around with it, it keeps still. As soon as I keep it still, it moves. It's it or me. Really relative. Yin & yang-ee.
Permalink to Commenti think you got this idea by looking at Astainless steel tray
thats really cool. did u make that or find out how to make stuff like that at your brain waves job or what ever it is?
Permalink to Commentwhen u sleep and you dream about things, is it what the brain wants or just its imagination running?
Permalink to CommentI SEE NO MOVEMENT?????
Permalink to Commenti noticed that when the circle is cut off by the edge of the screen it does not move
Permalink to Commentor if you closde one eye it will stop. left right brain activity?
Permalink to CommentWhere is the illusion. I have searched the website and cannot find it. Could you email me. So I may veiw it. Thank you.
Permalink to CommentNotice that the further away u r from the screen the less movement there is :)
Permalink to CommentI LOVE IT DO YOU HAVE ANY MORE. HOW IS THIS COMPOSED?
Permalink to CommentWhen you focus on one "circle," that circle doesn't move, but everything else does. So, if you follow the circles around you never can actually watch it straight on.
Permalink to CommentUnbelievable, it even worked when I printed it in black and white.
Permalink to CommentIf you print it out in black & white, it will still give the illusion of movement
Permalink to CommentJust fell off my chair,must have watched for too long.wheres the first aid box?
Permalink to Commentthis is way cool!!!! but how did you do it? what is the HTML??? can i put it on my web site www.tony-rules.s5.com ???
Permalink to CommentThis is a perceptual drift illusion created by Japanese vision scientist Akiyoshi Kitaoka. He has created many of these illusions, which can be found in my two of my books of illusions. The illusion works best on the screen, because the luminance values can be tightly controled, whereas in the four-color printing process they cannot, and so the illusion is greatly diminished. Also, scale and resolution is another factor. The web image is at 72 dpi, and you need at least 300 dpi for proper printing quality, so printing off the net will not help matters especially in this type of illusion.
If you are interested in the science of opticial illusions, then check out my books on the topic, which are the most authorative. They can be found on my web site: http://neuro.caltech.edu/~seckel
My latest one contains a whole chapter on Kitaoka's work.
Permalink to CommentFabulous! Any others? :>
Permalink to CommentHi,
I have a friend who does not see movement in the rotating snakes illusion. What does this mean?
Thanks.
Permalink to CommentI printed in color and it worked!!!!!
Permalink to CommentTHIS IS SOOOOOO WEIRD!!!! HEY HANNAH!!!!!!
Permalink to CommentI believe that there are small muscles in the retina that are constantly moving the 'retinal image' in a slow figure eight motion. This is due to the fact that a rod or cone cell is only traceable once & has to be 'reset' for the next light impulse. Our brain compensates for this motion, but it can be seen by staring at a point and noticing that within your peripheral vision, all objects start a slow figure eight sweep. I think that with so many detailed circles in the image that this slow eye movement seems to animate the image
Permalink to CommentThis is so cool! It is very interesting how your brain makes the picture move. I stood about 3 feet awaay and it did not move at all. That's interesting. It is so cool!
Permalink to CommentA friend sent this to me, I love it, reminds me
of the 70's, Thanks for the flashback
not moving for me either....am i weird? yes, i am. hurrah !!!
maybe a pint of vodka might change my poerception of it.
Permalink to CommentHere is the link to the guy that actually creates these. There are a bunch more to look at but not right after lunch.
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html
Permalink to CommentA friend just e-mailed this to me and that was really neat. I've read some of the comments and thats weird that some people don't see any movement. I saw it as soon as I looked at it.
Permalink to CommentHallo David,
I experience the same at times, when I look at the drapes in my home, the vertical pleats seem to move, as if the drape is moving by a draught what is not so.
Please tell me why this is.
With regards,
Frank.
That is facinating!((Sp?)) Personally, I love this type of information and I'm trying to study more and more into the way the brain works and am planning on getting my hands omn book and articles that Have to do with brain waves and neural ((sp?))science.
Permalink to CommentI told my husband to watch it to
its awsome
thanks : )
Permalink to Commentthat is so cool
Permalink to Commentthat is so cool
Permalink to Commentthat is so cool
Permalink to CommentMy eyes! I'm blind!
Permalink to CommentI could not see them move at all. Could it be something wrong, or maybe the set up of contact lenses that I wear (mono vision)
Permalink to CommentIts giving me a headache !!
Permalink to CommentBig deal, so it's an obtical illusion. Is this the best you could come up with?????
Permalink to CommentI have one eye, I can still see it move.
Permalink to CommentIt even works looking thru my third eye. Ganish.
Permalink to CommentCan't seem to make it work... Oh, I was using my little brown eye.
Permalink to Commentthanks for great site
Permalink to Commenttoo cool
Permalink to CommentI saved it as my wallpaper... it drives everyone else crazy!
Permalink to CommentI printed it on my HP OfficeJet G55xi and it works, it moves, it swirls. Also saved as my desktop. It's a good stress reliever!
Permalink to CommentI see no movement. This seems to be a hoax presented with pseudo-scientific bull. You could come up with something better -- at least more fun.
Permalink to CommentI see no movement. This seems to be a hoax presented with pseudo-scientific bull. You could come up with something better -- at least more fun.
Permalink to CommentI see no movement. This seems to be a hoax presented with pseudo-scientific bull. You could come up with something better -- at least more fun.
Permalink to CommentI see no movement. This seems to be a hoax presented with pseudo-scientific bull. You could come up with something better -- at least more fun.
Permalink to CommentI see no movement. This seems to be a hoax presented with pseudo-scientific bull. You could come up with something better -- at least more fun.
Permalink to CommentI see no movement. This seems to be a hoax presented with pseudo-scientific bull. You could come up with something better -- at least more fun.
Permalink to CommentI see no movement. This seems to be a hoax presented with pseudo-scientific bull. You could come up with something better -- at least more fun.
Permalink to CommentI am a Magician, out of the Magic Castle in Hollywood, California and I love it. By the way I just had eye surgery on both eyes so I now have 20/20 vision. Their doing miracles now-a-days.
Permalink to CommentIt wouldn't open for me. Just a little x in a box. ?
Permalink to CommentWOW, THIS IS FASCINATING! DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHERS? =0)
Permalink to CommentI hvae seen this once before. I think its awesome how wonderful GOD has made our eyes and our brain to work so in sync to have such a vision.
Permalink to CommentOptical illusions such as this are so fascinating. Interesting to read some of the other comments people make.
Those who think it's stupid or doesn't work are obviously brain dead - JUST KIDDING , DON'T GET YOUR BOWELS IN AN UPROAR. Sheez, some people just have no sense of humor.
Personally I like the one who feel off the chair and needed the first aid box, now you have a great sense of humor.
It was fun, thanks for sharing ;)
Permalink to CommentIt was amazing. It improved my concentration. Please send me the benefits of this type of illusions.
Permalink to Commentdear daivid your notes are great but how can we do brain waves
Permalink to Commentyour notes are great but how do we get brain waves
Permalink to Commentyou demonstrate the illusion of illusion. We are so much more than the illusion we think we are. We are trying to make illusion real in every possible way... Illusion uses space in our creative mind and this is how we experience lfe.
Our real work is to wake up and use our inner power to create love and expand it to all life. Happyness, greatness and beauty comes from finding love towards eachother for a unified world
These optical illusions are really something to see! I wanted a biiiiiggg colorful poster with that and hang it in the living room so that whenever I open my front door, anyone there can see it behind my back and get them distracted.. heh...
Even my husband saw it on my laptop and said, 'Cool!!'. lol...
Permalink to CommentIt's very interesting how the mind works ! My eyes, however, are very confused. I started to get a headache!!! It does work though and it's really neat.
Permalink to CommentI SAW IT MOVE AND SO DID ALL OF MY FRIENDS! THOSE OF YOU THAT CAN NOT SEE IT MOVE MUST HAVE ISSUES. THERE IS NO REASON TO GET SNOTTY ABOUT IT. LETS ACT OUR AGE CAN WE?
Permalink to CommentI would guess that the refreshing lines on your video display accelerate the effectual movement. Is this correct?
Monty
Very, very cool. Will it work on a large scale? I do large format graphics and would like to wrap my van with this as part of the design. Is there anyone I need to talk to about copyrights or for getting a vector format of the artwork?
Thanks!
Alex
Permalink to CommentThat was cool david you get r done with the movy pic thing.
Permalink to CommentSimply MindBlowwing :)
Permalink to Commentcool, send me more"
Permalink to CommentWhile I have no problem seeing this, my husband who is dyslexic see's absolutly no movement.
Permalink to CommentI think it's awesome... I see it moving.... but what makes this even more interesting is, why some people see it moving and some don't... I'd like to find out what could be the problem... their eyesight? brainwaves? Does anyone have an answer for this?
Permalink to CommentMy neurons are smiling! Way to go Mr. Lynch et al! :) Nanor Bouladian
Permalink to Commentdude thats kool i seen more but that ones kool and i showed my dad and he saisd its kool to and i made it as my wallpaper and everybody says its kool to lmao
Permalink to Commenttrippy brah
Permalink to Commentthis was very cool, just wondering if you had any more? Thanx Rita
Permalink to CommentThis is wild! My dad is color blind, so I wonder if it would work for him.
Permalink to CommentHow fun!! Optical illusions are the best! Thanks!
Denise. :)
Permalink to CommentGreat illusion! One of the best I've seen.
I love the comment above from the person "who can even see it with my third eye!".
LOL
Permalink to Commenti saw this one printed on some japanese merchandise few years ago. it rox
Permalink to Commentperhaps it has something to do with the refresh rate of the monitor screen, producing a kind of interferance with the eyes...?
Permalink to CommentThis illusion has been copied from Ayukoshi's Illusion Pages- http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html I wonder why the Mr Ayukoshi's name is not mentioned here. For those of u interested in such stuff, do take a look at Ayukoshi's page for many more interesting illusions.
Permalink to CommentThis is one of the best optical illusions I have seen. They are fun and very amazing. It is wonderful that there are folks who enjoy creating things like this for others to think about and enlighted thier day. Thanks.
Permalink to CommentWow this was so cool! I think that the mind works in such cool ways! Thanks for the explanation too!
Permalink to CommentVery interesting. My friend who brought it to our attention has Dwayne's Syndrome but can see it too - any other optical illusions????
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