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Peripheral Drift - rotating snakes image

Tinselman had a link to these wonderfully confusing images. Nothing is actually moving on the screen - they work if you print them out, too. Here's a short explanation of the peripheral drift illusion. And I found this article on the science of optical illusions.

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Posted by: alok on July 16, 2008 at 8:38 AM

explanation?

the link to explanation wasn't entirely correct. it just points to a pdf with further enhancements to the illusion, it not exactly a short explanation....

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Posted by: Mr. Monday on July 17, 2008 at 4:49 AM

SIGGRAPH Paper

Hi,

You can check the research from SIGGRAPH 2008:
http://graphics.csie.ncku.edu.tw/SAI/

Automatically generate animating self-animating images :)

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Posted by: Mohid on September 9, 2009 at 3:00 AM

Nice illusion

Wow, nice illusion :).

best regards
www.pictureresizer.org

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