Psycho pic of the day (1 Viewer)

[Scott L]

Do you have 1 eye or 2? The illusion doesn't seem as effective with 1 eye closed.

 

[John Thomas]

I see a sailboat.

Or is that a schooner?

 

[Cees Alons]

Any suggestions?

Sit at a distance of about 30 cm (.. uhm.. 12 inches). Fixate one black dot for half a sec. then rapidly another, then another again, etc. Immediately after an eye movement, the centres of the circles that you're not looking to directly will seem to turn (a bit), like adjusting to a new position. Probably, the direction of the movements will be symmetric, to a vertical axis.

The effect is closely related to the "moiré" effect.

Cees

 

[BrianW]

Nope. Doesn't do it for me.

I guess I'll have to try the liquor.

 

[Dome Vongvises]

You know, school was actually useful for a change. I understand everything Cees said.

 

[Cees Alons]

Brian,

It also doesn't work unless the image is razor sharp, i.e. you need to wear the proper glasses (if needed).

Cees

 

[DavidAM]

Its even cooler when you set it as your desktop background!

 

[Francois Caron]

DavidAM, I hate you! Now it's my turn to clean vomit off my keyboard!

 

[Dennis Nicholls]

The effect is closely related to the "moiré" effect.

When the Moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a moiré.....

 

[Cees Alons]

Cees

 

[DavidAM]

Now it's my turn to clean vomit off my keyboard

hehe....where's the vomit smiley when you need it

 

[alan halvorson]

Still nothing for me, glass eye in or out.

 

[Tony-B]

David, do you mean this smiley?!

Whoa...that picture is freaky. I like it. I'm gonna have to get the silica on my keyboard too.

 

[Scott L]

alan lol. make sure you put both of em in now (you goofball)!

edit- echoing what Cees brought up, I don't see the effect nearly as much as when I put my glasses on. Make sure your prescriptions are up to date!

 

[John_Berger]

Sweet! I love those kinds of optical illusions!

 

[James Landau]

I'm with Brian and Alan. I don't see an illusion either. Just a fancy design of yellow and blue concentric circles. Nothing's moving. And my vision in both eyes is perfectly normal.

I'm beginning to wonder if this is one of those annoying gag threads where everyone just pretends something is going on in order to reel in people who say "WTF?"

 

[Scott Van Dyke]

Nope James. I guess for most people, it appears to be moving. It spins around and around for me....

 

[JustinCleveland]

I'm with James... though it appears to move briefly, I can't get it to keep spinning, no matter what. It shifts.

I can't see Magic Eye books either.

 

[Keith Paynter]

Ach! My eyes!! The goggles do nothing!!

On the up side, I think I found Waldo...:b

 

[Stevan Lay]

That's odd, is there suppose to be a soundbyte to go along with the illusion?