Visual Trickery
Or, why you shouldn't necessarily believe everything you see.
If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink. But if you stare at the black + in the center, the moving dot becomes green. Now, concentrate longer on the black + in the center of the picture. After a short period of time, all the pink dots will slowly fade away and you will only see a rotating green dot. Don't see it? Well, keep staring! (But be careful; if you are like me, you will start to feel nauseous after a short time).
It's amazing how our brain interprets this animation because there really is no green dot, and the pink dots don't disappear. This nicely illustrates how we don't always see what we think we see.
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Thanks for sharing the animation, Cheri.
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posted by GrrlScientist at
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Damn, that is scary. Mostly because I spend an awful lot of time looking at red and green dots all day. Now I'm worried some of them are not what I thought I saw-! I guess that's why we use computers to analyze our data...
Wow, that's crazy-fun!!!
Very interesting!
Great! If you haven't seen it already, you might want to go to:
http://illusionsetc.blogspot.com/
Great demonstration of "simultaneous contrast." When the red dot disappears, the eye spontaneously generates its complementary (green) on the pure gray neutral background. Thanks!!
So, the test question for everybody is..... Is this a retinal illusion or a cortical one?
This is and after-image illusion the green is the negative image of the pink.
I'm not an eye expert but I'll guess the after-image effect is a retinal illusion.
I originally found this here
MS PhD; I thought you would appreciate this when I first saw it.
Thanks everyone else for enjoying this and for posting links that provide more information about this illusion.
GrrlScientist
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