Monday, July 18, 2011

Optical illusion #1: The Ball

This time I'd like to show you an amazing optical illusion I've recently found.

Here's the link to it: CLICK ME!

First, take a look at the ball. It will appear to fall straight from top to bottom.
Then look at the blue circle in the top right part of the page. The spinning disc will seem to change
its fall direction and "fall" leaning towards the left side.
To be honest, I think that it's about tricking your brain into thinking that the ball is constantly moving, while it's not. What is your opinion about the way this illusion works?

39 comments:

  1. Haha, really like that one, I think its just some trick with my brain, I have no idea how it works in detail though.

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  2. I love stuff like this. I remember reading something somewhere about how the color magenta doesn't actually exist on the color spectrum but our minds create it. Google magenta isn't a color if you're interested.

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  3. It's fun to mess around with the controls as well and see how it changes.

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  4. Wow that's pretty cool. Amazing what the eye and brain can perceive.

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  5. Cool stuff, got to show it to my friends.

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  6. Yea, that x-men movie was quite bad compared to the rest. Epic illusion! :D

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  7. Wow, it really did fall a bit horizontally :) +f

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  8. Woah, that's pretty cool. The brain is a strange organ indeed :V

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  9. i accidentally thought an image on your blog was the optical illusion, turned out it was just an ad lol

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  10. cool illusion. Thanks for posting!

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  11. It worked! I'm a big fan of optical illusion, keep on posting more fantastic illusions.

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  12. Really weird how our vision can deceive us like that!

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  13. Haha, our brain is really easy to trick :]

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  14. never understood how things like this one work

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  15. One of the best optical illusions I've seen in a long time.

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  16. My mind is blown.
    I've seen a lot of optical illusions, but never this one.

    Following and supporting! :)

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  17. It's really cool that they let you mess with the parameters!

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  18. Pretty cool. Fun to change around the options and see what happens.

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  19. Not really working for me, maybe because I'm too used to gradients

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  20. my brain hates you right now, but that was so cool!

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  21. So weird! I love those things.

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  22. That's really weird how our brain processes this.

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  23. My eyes!! They are tripping out.

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  24. Wow trippy !!! haha i wonder if this really works

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  25. thats really weird haha, its always moving down and yet it seems to be moving sideways. . . followed!

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  26. Crazy dude. ha. couldnt stop. Followed

    http://upanduppers.blogspot.com/

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  27. My brain is full of f...

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  28. Very cool optical illusion, followed!

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  29. That's pretty neat! The longer you stare at the blue ball (haha) the more illusion of distance it seems to create, like it's leaving your peripheral vision.

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  30. this is one of those things where you can never stop to look... just too confusing and hypnotising

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  31. its crazy men! my brain goes bom!

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  32. That is pretty cool. Probably going to give me a headache if I stare at it much more!

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  33. That's really cool, you can change it so it goes to the left or right too.

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  34. I haven't seen this one before, nice find!

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