Holy shit this is the best optical illusion I've ever seen
 

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That is so damn cool...

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woah i didnt notice the pink dots actually disappeared when you unfocused your eyes

Ive been staring at this for almost 10 minutes now and it hasnt became less awesome.

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mother****er

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brilliant.

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Another thing that's better than essay writing, although I've finished now so it matters less.

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Awsome.

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Really neat - but where is the accurate description why it happens? :D

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Brilliant

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Very nice!

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Bloody hell that's class

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Nice. Very nice. :D

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that's pretty cool

i had a pretty strange optical illusion as i lay in bed last night. There was a small gap in my curtains in which a small bit of light was coming through. as i stared at the gap, it slowly began to appear to close and the whole room became dark. very strange.

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I'm a fan.

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yeh it's pretty cool...

although what does it mean "there is no green dot"?
If you zoom in the pink dots blatantly go green...

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bah humbug

it's just the residual effect of having the same wave length of light blasted at the cells in your eye.

it's a pink dot going around a lot of other pink dots. if you stare at it long enough then your cells get damaged and you'll see a green dot even if you close your damn eyes.

i'm not even a ****ing scientist and even i know it's a load of crap

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And here I thought it was magic. Thanks for ruining all the fun you party pooper!

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I have double vision atm so it hasn't worked properly for me...

however, my left eye certainly didnt see the pink dots after a while.

my right eye appears to be harder to fool though, damn it. Impetuous youth.

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That is cool. :)

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it's basically playing with the preprocessing of the image in your eye and overexposing it and it takes a while for your eye to refresh the neurotransmitters. It's the same thing as if you stare at something with alot of contrast and then shut your eyes, you can see an imprinted negative.

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that is exactly what i said but with a lot of long words thrown in. (none of which add anything: lol neurotransmitter lol. totally ****ing unnecessary word. also wrong)

do you understand mow why you aren't popular???

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He isn't popular where? on the interlol?

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How is it a load of crap?

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the thingy with the other thingy

it was red light to what i call cone shaped cells

honestly dante

godness knows what they are actually called. I call them the cone shaped cells.

the optical illusion is a big pile of balls.


i don't understand what i did wrong dante?

there is a lot of crap flying around.

i just point it out. i 'highlighited' if you will let me

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you seem to be losing ground my little puppet

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Well no need to explain the dot illusion that's been covered already. Your one is much more simple to solve.

As your room was obviously dark (or at least darker than outside), the iris in yoru eye was wide open to allow more light so you could see. Once you began staring at the light coming through your curtains your iris had to close a bit more to adjust to this brighter light source. Once it closed down less light was able to enter your eye and the room appeared darker, it also meant the light coming in through the curtain was less noticable and appeared to go away.

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I don't really see how this is true. No-one believed it was magic. We are aware it was an optical illusion, although the specifics of how it operated may have been lost on some.

You then went on to say (to summarise) : "That's shit : that's just an optical illusion!" (albeit with a helpful explanation). Which seems to be missing the point somewhat.

Sure, you may not think it's a particularly good optical illusion. You may have seen much better. But that seems a slightly different matter.

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It's not working at the moment, probably due to my stinking hangover. :(

When I try to stare at the frying pan formation of stars it dissapears but if I look just to the side they are visable (explained by what djbass said?).

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hehe

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It uses several different aspects of our visual processing, mainly afterimages (as yahwe/RE said) and the phi phenomenon. There's a brief summary here

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I just actually said "holy shit!" out loud when the dots disappeared.

:up:

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I've seen similar things....

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r u serious u cant b serious :salute:

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hmm, i had a feeling it might have had something to do with my iris, i was sure that when it was happening i could actually feel my iris closing. it made my eyes begin to ache after awhile aswell. thanks for the explanation though dj :up:

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that's pretty neat

another great magical invention from the pixies and fairies!

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I liked it muchly, but I have this question. When I keep looking at the cross the pink dots reappear. Did others see that too?

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Alternatively you could be the reincarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ and it was the first of many 'practice miracles' before the big show.

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but i'm not the one with the long hippy hair and beard. how's exeter anyway?

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http://research.lumeta.com/ches/me/

Saw this posted in an SA thread yesterday. Apparently the effect can last for over a day :o

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also http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot_feet_lin/index.html

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I didn't want to look at it (because I didn't want effects to linger for days) so I only looked at the two objects (colored & b&w) for a couple of seconds to see what it was all about, and I still see the effects. :(

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Heh I live a little way from there.

That was mint btw, really wierd when it dissapeared.

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Holy shit another thread copied from SA.

You could have at least reworded the thread title.

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Maybe you should read the date of the initial post, fatty.

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I stared at that for quite a while and it didn't work for me :(

| must be an extreme introvert

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holy crap, i looked at that at about 0130 this morning and i can still see it :eek:

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Same. It's less obvious, but still there.

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I tried it, stared at it for a long while, the effect was only minor and lasted all of 2 minutes (after 15 minutes of staring at coloured lines). I say it's an illusion of an illusion, my theory is that it is actually based on memory recall and not the sensory nerves in the eye at all.

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ITT Yahwe throws a hissy fit because pink and green dots are much more interesting than him

look at me, look at me! i can dissapear too!

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Well, the green/magenta haze is still there. That's 1.5 days now. :)

I can't quite work out if I'm imagining it.