WTF?!?!?! MY BRAIN!!!

[Isaac]

[Sapphire Wolf]

we could use the music "The Greatest Show Unearthed" to go with this gif

[Enzo-03]

That's how I feel in my algorithms class.

[Tunnelcat]

That makes me nauseous just looking at it.

[Alter-Fox]

Cute fishy. Tasty fishy.
Not much of a cat, are you?

[Foil]

Escher fractal, good...

[Isaac]

I keep wanting to see the other side, but it never comes. It's incredibly frustrating.

[Avder]

I want a high def version of that gif so when I have my own office one day, I can put up a 32inch screen out in my reception area and just have this image looping on it all day. Drive anyone out there insane.

[Isaac]

[Foil]

I keep wanting to see the other side...

The "other side"? It's a 2D fractal.

[Isaac]

Foil, I know that. But my brain keeps seeing a plane slowly rotating and keeps anticipating the edge to pass by reveling the other side. I'm like, "no brain. It's just a flat 2d animation." My brain is like, "Not-ah! It's a rotating 3d plane. YOu'll see. It's about to flip."

[Tunnelcat]

Cute fishy. Tasty fishy.
Not much of a cat, are you?

Gaaaaaaaaak..."cough"... hooooooooorf! There's a nice fish-flavored hairball for you.

[Isaac]

ewwww

[roid]

it's essentially a spherical panorama, it includes both horizon vanishing points (and further).
http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/pano ... -extremes/
It's like one of these pictures, but as a video, as you travel around the landscape.

i'm curious what OP's pic would look like unwarped.

actually now i'm kinda extra curious, is this effect dependant on there being a horizon with vanishing points? ie: it's dependant on being on a spherical planet? I wonder what a spherical panorama would look like if it were taken on a hypothetical infinite flat plane (ie: not on a planet) with thus no disappearing horizon.
i mean that's what causes our common notions of horizons right? spherical planet yeah?
(too early for me to think about geometry or perspective apparently...)

Gah, Grendel where are you when we need you to explain stuff.

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[Isaac]

witchcraft!

[Avder]

Dammit, they're on to me!

[Isaac]

This is strange. When the circles aren't moving everything looks more symmetrical:

[Enzo-03]

I want a high def version of that gif so when I have my own office one day, I can put up a 32inch screen out in my reception area and just have this image looping on it all day. Drive anyone out there insane.

And I want it as a screensaver.

[Burlyman]

This is Blasphemy! This is madness!

I keep wanting to see the other side, but it never comes. It's incredibly frustrating.

This is because your mind is programmed to interpret information in a certain way. Remember the parable of the spinning lady. ^_~