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Neat optical illusion

rofl that's awesome! I keep staring at the dot trying to make the color go away when I mouseover it but it never does :Q
 
whoa, if you look away from the dot and then look back, it goes back to color...if you keep looking away then back the color gradually fades.
 
Resurrecting this as I just found it through other means and was going to make a new post.. Searched "illusion" and dug it up.

As long as you don't move your eyes it stays in color. You can blink and everything. Awesome. The one Nohr posted is pretty crazy too.

 
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
What the... I want the explaination! How does that work?

The pink dot thing is trippy...
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It works by exhausting your color receptors. Take the sky for example, it is orangey in the original image. After viewing orange for a while, it drains a large amount of red and a medium amount of green, leaving blue with a tinge of green which is what the sky looks like. The opposite of pink in the case of the moving pink dots is green. Not only do you eyes have color receptors but they also have motion receptors. So watching something spiraling inward for a while will cause stationary objects to appear like they're expanding outward for similar reasons.
As for what causes exhaustion, I'm not entirely sure but I believe it has to do with the way that sensations tend to follow a decay curve (intuitive reason is that if something's going to be in your field of view for a while, it shouldn't be alerting your brain the whole time, so after it notices it, it gradually stops being as noticeable).
 
AGGHHH!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE I WATCHED THAT THING POP OUT ON THE SCREEN!!! UGGHH!!!! YOU JERK!!! THAT SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME!!!!


Now, enough about your girlfriend's MySpace page 😀

That was a pretty cool illusion! I think it has something to do with locking color rods in your eyes in place.
 
Originally posted by: Cuhulainn
Resurrecting this as I just found it through other means and was going to make a new post.. Searched "illusion" and dug it up.

As long as you don't move your eyes it stays in color. You can blink and everything. Awesome. The one Nohr posted is pretty crazy too.
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You are a good man. :beer:
 
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