neat optical illusion

roid · Post by **roid** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 3:05 am

http://www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/co ... usion.html

editable version here

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 6:08 am

Nice.

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:14 am

that green is the complimentary color of that pink and since your eye will retain the opposite color of that which is reflected the illusion occurs

simple color wheel trick

ie: stare at a bight light for 1-3 seconds close you eyes or look away for a second. The exact opposite image will majically appear on the inside of your eyelids or burned into you vision and everything else dissapears.

yellow turns purple
red turns green
blue turns orange
black turns white

or visa versa

this is basic color using complimentary colors when painting is how you achive accurate muddled colors without the use of black

Pun · Post by **Pun** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:03 am

cool!

Hattrick · Post by **Hattrick** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:31 am

punisher wrote:cool!

Very!

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:47 am

That is cool. Try the editable version and stop it. There really isn't a green dot spinning around. I didn't believe it till I saw the thing stopped.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 9:34 am

I'm getting dizzy... can I stop now?

Dedman · Post by **Dedman** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 9:58 am

That makes me hungry. Who's up for lunch?

Lobber · Post by **Lobber** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:09 am

Leet

I was able to make all the pink dots disappear in a few revolutions, which was only 10 seconds or so.

But the dots reappear the moment my eyes jogged a tiny bit, and a slight displacement of vision occurs when the light hits a different set of cones in my retina.

Still amazing how the brain interprets what it sees. This is proof that you don't see what your eyes see, you see what your brain translates coming from your eyes.

Sarge · Post by **Sarge** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 2:30 pm

Another...

Pun · Post by **Pun** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 3:56 pm

Gah! I hate you, Sarge! /me slams head against desk!

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:26 pm

That's weird; I didn't have any problems with it. I know it royally screwed me over the first time I saw it.

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:41 pm

It's painful, and it slows you down, but if you don't actually READ the words it's a lot easier...

...nonetheless, it is very very amusing.

snoopy · Post by **snoopy** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:53 pm

nice... I got the pink dots to disappear- it's wild.

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 11:36 pm

They didn't quite disappear to me. They just dimmed into near indistinguishability.

De Rigueur · Post by **De Rigueur** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 11:50 pm

I'm colorblind.

roid · Post by **roid** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 11:53 pm

what level of colourblindness?
and what do you see in this illusion?

De Rigueur · Post by **De Rigueur** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 12:17 am

Not sure what level.
I can see the different colored dots, I just don't know what color they are. It's easier for me to identify it if I can stare at a color -- as opposed to briefly flashing dots.

I can usually manage to confuse red and green. In sarge's picture, if there were no greens, I probably wouldn't be able to tell if the reds were red or green.