May 23, 2006 by Vurdlak
Alan Stubbs from University of Maine in USA made this wonderfull optical illusion. This illusion participated in “Best Visual Illusion Of The Year Contest”, and made it to the finals - The Top 10 Finalists to be exact. What you should do is simple, Alan explained: “For the primary effect, one should sit at a comfortable distance and then move forward toward the center of the figure. An interesting change in apparent brightness and to some degree form will result—what may be called a “here comes the sun” effect. By moving back and forth, this apparent change will repeat”. I really liked this effect, so be sure to check for more versions of this image here. I posted few more inside this post…
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I love this. Wonderful effects. Keep posting.
These are extremely interesting! Can you please explain HOW and WHY these illusions work??? Thank You!
the brown and yellow one worked the best
I also agree with Hai-san.
Man thats crazy
whoa whao whoa whoa whoa
that was sweet i hope he won that contest
kick ass
man… i cant stare at that fo 10 seconds. i might just start seeing blue
woa fricken awsom that like blinded me
that worked well,
i liked it! :D
thats bout as satisfyin as a sweet summer strawberry come noontime
THe black and silver one didn’t really work that well for me. But all the others did. WAY 2 Go.
Wicked
Wait a sec… I don’t remember saying Wicked. Did someone Change their name to mine!? Or did I just forget thay I said that!?!? :S
Dude! Where do you come up with stuff ? It’s the most awesome almighty.
I think ur cul. Do you have a My Space page?
I would like to visit it if you do. Bi.
awesome. kinda boring compared to other types of optical illusions though
When you stare at an image for several seconds it gets imprinted on your retina in the back of your eye. You can then see it with your eyes shut and when another image is looked at right away the first and second can unite to give a third image of different combined colors. Similar effects can be seen by moving closer to some images you have stared at which combines the near and far images in the back of your eye or merges different colors to give a new color. It is the same as looking at a bright lite for a short time and anafter image remains for several seconds…
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! HEHEHEHEHEHE!!! so COOOL!!!
I love cheese, and these are CHEEEZY!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
thats so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
not!
That….was…..AWESOME!!!
I agee very awesome! Better than most for my eyes anyway.
for the first black one, it reminded me of a wormhole…
Sakura useing -san its in naruto too thats kinda annoying but im not going to come back here so just saying “Sakura-chan”
It works too if you scroll the page up and down repeatedly
really kl! theyre all gr8 illusions!!
dude! that is awesome! i like the 2nd one best.
they were all really cool! I like the after-images too though.
WOW!! The second one looks like you’re going through a tunnel!
the second- the black and white one- seemed to work as if you were to be falling down a dark tunnel- creepy if you asked me, eaven tough i totaly loved how this efect worked quikly and easily!
wow that is kool!
COOL!!! ^^
geez i feel like an idiot rocking back and forth in my chair
If you back up far enough, the blotches start getting bigger again.
Hi Guys, I’m happy to know that you like our illusions:-)
If you are interested to this illusions also from a more scientific point of you you can read the articles that I wrote with Alan Stubbs and with Anstis and Wehrhahn:
Simone Gori, D Alan Stubbs (2006) A new set of illusions–the dynamic luminance-gradient illusion and the breathing light illusion.
Perception 35(11):1573-1577
Stuart Anstis, Simone Gori, Christian Wehrhahn (2007) Afterimages and the Breathing Light Illusion.
Perception 36(5):791-794
you can find the link for the PDFs version of that papers on my page:
http://www.psico.univ.trieste.it/staff/infostaff.php3?pid=168&tinf=p
while you can find several beautiful variations of this illusion to the Alan’s page:
http://perceptualstuff.org/
Thanks again for the very nice comments on our illusions :-)
Best,
Simone
I would also like to know why this works!
Dear Sara,
I Published with Anstis and Wehrhahn a paper in 2007 that seems to be a pretty good explanation of the illusion you can read that paper at this link:
http://www.perceptionweb.com/perception/editorials/p5785.pdf
if you have other questions feel free to contact me.
Simone
HERE COMES THE SUN!!!!!!!!!!