Optical Illusions.

[irishcream]

I like the last one best...

[NeAvO]

I like this one, stare at the middle 3 dots for 30 seconds, then close your eyes and tilt your head upwards.

[Stalker]

A little "illusion" to show how our sight works with colours: http://wohba.com/pages/colorlogan0606.html

[SKA]

A little "illusion" to show how our sight works with colours: http://wohba.com/pages/colorlogan0606.html [/b] That one is Wicked! Yeah I really LOVE optical illusions. Have got great books full of them.

[Jess]

I couldn't get Stalker's one to work but if you do NeAvO's one right before you see it floating in the clouds

[OpheliaBlue]

A little "illusion" to show how our sight works with colours: http://wohba.com/pages/colorlogan0606.html [/b] the HELL?! what a load of hooey edit: OHHH i get it now lol. I thought it was a joke, like "stare at the '+' and then move the mouse over it and the colors will seem different somehow" and then BOOM you can see an entire different picture now omg what an illusion! But I get it now the colors appearontheblackandwhitethingyyhhfjd ok got it.

[towarmforacoat]

and the ever famous pretty woman/old hag...

[AlternateReality]

the color one is the best.

[Stevehattan]

^What does it do, add color to the grey image? It didn't really work for me.

[Kaniaz]

I like Stalker's one, I've done it before. It's kind of like inverse colours or something, I don't remember exactly what. I used to have an animated GIF of a grayscale castle - you'd look at a load of, supposedly random, blobs of colour and then it would switch back to the picture. Suddenly it would be in colour. The best part was I was able to just continue to stare at the picture and see the colours in this (defintely) grayscale image for 30 seconds. It never seemed to 'fade' away to me, I had to move my eyes or something.

[nina]

[OpheliaBlue]

^^ that's my favorite ever one I can't believe my eyes and brain are so retarded that they think it's moving Hey you see those little red "Y" thingies attached to some of the wheels? I wonder if the effect would be the same if they weren't there. If I get bored enough sometimes I'll mess with it in photoshop or something. edit: nope, they're superfluous edit again: oh I see, they're there for a frame of reference so that you can see that parts attached to it aren't moving

[Peregrinus]

If you stare at the black dot at the center of one of those wheels and defocus your eyes a bit, they'll stop moving. Then flick your eyes away to another section of the image and it moves. Back to the focus and hold steady, it stops. I think it was Howetzer who showed me a few of those types of illusions and said that a study was done to determine how people of different ages see the image. Young people saw it moving, older people saw it as steady. I'd like to know if there's an explanation for why. It might have something to do with young people flitting their eyes all over the image while older people find a focus and use their peripheral vision to view the rest of it since when you hold a steady focal point, it doesn't appear to move anymore. Maybe... Here's one of my favorites: Undulating Spiral Stare at the spiral for about a minute and then look at your hand (or anything else, really). And fun topic, btw!

[Leo Volont]

A little "illusion" to show how our sight works with colours: http://wohba.com/pages/colorlogan0606.html [/b] Yes, it is this phenomena of negative color that is responsible for all those silly auras that people insist upon seeing. People even pay good money to go to Workshops to be fooled by phenomena that is so easy to explain.

[Jess]

Wow, that one's mental Aquanina!

[Howie]

Awesome. Our brain making presumptions. Making sense out of discord. I think this belongs in the Artist's corner too! If you stare at the black dot at the center of one of those wheels and defocus your eyes a bit, they'll stop moving. Then flick your eyes away to another section of the image and it moves. Back to the focus and hold steady, it stops. I think it was Howetzer who showed me a few of those types of illusions and said that a study was done to determine how people of different ages see the image. Young people saw it moving, older people saw it as steady. I'd like to know if there's an explanation for why. It might have something to do with young people flitting their eyes all over the image while older people find a focus and use their peripheral vision to view the rest of it since when you hold a steady focal point, it doesn't appear to move anymore. Maybe... Here's one of my favorites: Undulating Spiral Stare at the spiral for about a minute and then look at your hand (or anything else, really). And fun topic, btw! [/b] I remember sending that to you but can't for the life of me remember either either. I will sift through my scientific American magazines with hopes to find it. (I think that is where it was ) talk about gettin old.

[TweaK]

I like Stalker's one, I've done it before. It's kind of like inverse colours or something, I don't remember exactly what. I used to have an animated GIF of a grayscale castle - you'd look at a load of, supposedly random, blobs of colour and then it would switch back to the picture. Suddenly it would be in colour. The best part was I was able to just continue to stare at the picture and see the colours in this (defintely) grayscale image for 30 seconds. It never seemed to 'fade' away to me, I had to move my eyes or something. [/b] Yep yep. Same for me, it won't fade or something, I need to move my eyes for it to fade. [/b] Yes, very psychedellic Here's one of my favorites: Undulating Spiral Stare at the spiral for about a minute and then look at your hand (or anything else, really). And fun topic, btw! [/b] God.. I love that one ^^

[OpheliaBlue]

Here's one of my favorites: Undulating Spiral Stare at the spiral for about a minute and then look at your hand (or anything else, really).[/b] oh hell yeah, that whole site is cool

[badassbob]

Just found this one on google video.

[Jess]

That's cool, I want one of my head!

[Bonsay]

Here is one similar to the spiral one... compfused ...and some more: Black dots And another one

[TweaK]

To clarify, in Bonsay's last link, the lines are all straight. Horizontal.

[OpheliaBlue]

Here is one similar to the spiral one... compfused [/b] woah when I stared at that one for the full 2 minutes then looked away, it was not unlike an acid trip I did in college, where everything kinda slowly pulsated and bulged out everywhere neat-o

[Jess]

Yeah, that one works better than the spiral one! EDIT: My eyes hurt a bit now though...does it tell you to stop looking at the screen through the speakers? Cus I had them turned off!

[NeAvO]

Try looking at your pet after doing that illusion, its freaky .