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optical dillusion

If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink. If you stare at the black + in the center, the moving dot turns to green. Now, concentrate on the black + in the center of the picture. After a short period of time, all the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you will only see a green dot rotating if you're lucky! It's amazing how our brain works. There really is no green dot, and the pink ones really don't disappear. This should be proof enough, we don't always see what we think we see.
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A very compelling illusion!  Where did you find it?  

A perfect example of how the brain misjudges brightness or color.  The brain loves to simplify incoming sensory information and will go so far as to "fill in the blanks" or selectively ignore information in order to accomplish this goal.

Wow, this is a great illusion!
 
I can't really say where I found it.. There is some content not appropriate for younger members of this forum.

I like how atleast for me, some of the dots disappear before the others, and that they don't all go in a row.

1 disappears then the next 2 stay then the one after that goes...
 
Well...I don't think its really working that way.  If you cover up ALL the dots but one, you will still see it alternate between pink and green.  That's no optical illusion...that's actually changing colors. There IS a real green dot.

However, its true that if you stare at it the pink ones disappear. That part IS an optical illusion.
 
Actually, the dots never turn green. They simply flicker on and off. What you perceive as green is an after image of the magenta (like a negative of it). Just another part of the illusion.
 
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Quote[/b] (Nep_grower @ Dec. 14 2005,1:43)]Actually, the dots never turn green.  They simply flicker on and off.  What you perceive as green is an after image of the magenta (like a negative of it).  Just another part of the illusion.
Wow... you're right!
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Hmmm. I'm mixed on this. It does appear to turn green for a fraction of a second after the pink turns off. Cover up all but one to see. Hmmm.

In any case, the pink disappearing after staring for a while is a very good illusion. (Didn't I post this here a month or two ago?)

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[b said:
Quote[/b] (Capslock @ Dec. 14 2005,4:34)](Didn't I post this here a month or two ago?)

Capslock
Yes you did...but I...can never...get enough...green dots. Must have more...must give all plants now to GAWD_oOo and not Capslock!




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