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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  1. Anonymous Jokken 

    I love this. Wonderful effects. Keep posting.

  2. Anonymous Tomas-Antonio 

    These are extremely interesting! Can you please explain HOW and WHY these illusions work??? Thank You!

  3. Anonymous Hai 

    the brown and yellow one worked the best

  4. Anonymous Sakura 

    I also agree with Hai-san.

  5. Anonymous Jimmis 

    Man thats crazy

  6. Anonymous your name 

    whoa whao whoa whoa whoa

    that was sweet i hope he won that contest









    kick ass

  7. Anonymous some guy 

    man... i cant stare at that fo 10 seconds. i might just start seeing blue

  8. Anonymous qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm 

    woa fricken awsom that like blinded me

  9. Anonymous M 2 the H O 

    that worked well,







    i liked it! :D

  10. Anonymous Sir Loin 

    thats bout as satisfyin as a sweet summer strawberry come noontime

  11. Anonymous Bobby 

    THe black and silver one didn't really work that well for me. But all the others did. WAY 2 Go.

  12. Anonymous BurninRubber 

    Wicked

  13. Anonymous Tony 

    Uh.... this is bad for my eys. It's a good thing I ate my gabagool today.

  14. Anonymous BurninRubber 

    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

  15. Anonymous Vurdlack 

    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.

  16. Anonymous Pandas 

    awesome. kinda boring compared to other types of optical illusions though

  17. Anonymous Lem 

    awesome! i like the first most. really kinda "here comes the sun" effect. but the second is cool to. seems like the dark is catching you. they're all really nice

  18. Anonymous meeow =^_^= 

    that was way fricking awsome

  19. Anonymous Sheridan 

    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...

  20. Anonymous Cheezy-lama 

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! HEHEHEHEHEHE!!! so COOOL!!!
    I love cheese, and these are CHEEEZY!!!!!
    HAHAHAHAHHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

  21. Anonymous wazup:) 

    thats so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



    not!

  22. Anonymous Anonymous 

    That....was.....AWESOME!!!

  23. Anonymous Anonymous 

    I agee very awesome! Better than most for my eyes anyway.

  24. Anonymous Tori 

    for the first black one, it reminded me of a wormhole...

  25. Anonymous Kyuubi NarutoUzimaki 

    Sakura useing -san its in naruto too thats kinda annoying but im not going to come back here so just saying "Sakura-chan"

  26. Anonymous Avin 

    It works too if you scroll the page up and down repeatedly

  27. Anonymous Elliexx ANIMALS ROCK!! 

    really kl! theyre all gr8 illusions!!

  28. Anonymous Anonymous 

    dude! that is awesome! i like the 2nd one best.

  29. Anonymous Snaiko 

    they were all really cool! I like the after-images too though.

  30. Anonymous Anonymous 

    WOW!! The second one looks like you're going through a tunnel!

  31. Anonymous Anonymous 

    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!

  32. Anonymous brooks 

    wow that is kool!

  33. Blogger stephi_luvs_HP 

    COOL!!! ^^

  34. Anonymous Anonymous 

    geez i feel like an idiot rocking back and forth in my chair

  35. Anonymous Anonymous 

    If you back up far enough, the blotches start getting bigger again.

  36. Anonymous Simone Gori 

    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




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