Expanding Brown Dot
February 26, 2007 by Vurdlak
I found this optical illusion through my Google Alerts email, and noticed it's pretty interesting. At first you may miss the illusion, but if you watch carefully the center of the brown "dot", you will notice that it appears to be expanding. The effect by its nature, is quite opposite from other illusion located in disappearing effect section (which I updated just now), but it works in the same way. Just think of it like this - the center blurred spot isn't vanishing, rather expanding, but the outer yellow surrounding is slowly shrinking (disappearing). This is the reason why I placed it in the same category. You may want to check stronger examples like vanishing haze, but you should also visit expanding cushion and expanding block that aren't much similar, yet they also seem to expand.
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i actually got the dot to almost disappear by staring at it
I like this illusion. It is brown.
I can see it bulge outwards a little! Thats really cool!
it just seems to pulsate to me
mine is not expanding mine is shrinkin...
First one (not to see anything...?)
Moon
It's moving around.
It appears to be moving back aqnd forth to me.
It is shrinking for me! Is that ok??
I don't know if I'm the only one who saw it but there is also a face in the center. you gotta kinda squint to see it.
if u squint at it it will become larger and then small
It doesn't seem to get larger or smaller...but it does seem to move around a little.
hmm, if I stare at the brown dot as it suggests, mine also tends to shrink almost to disappearance.
Though, if I look at the edge of the brown dot (or anywhere in the yellow) it seems to expand.
Bizarre! I like it!
um, when I looked at it for awhile, it started randomly wiggling around.
number 1 illusion but I'm only saying that because I like brown dots .....................go brown!!!!
For me it seems to jump around like crazy and when I look at something else, I can see it as a negative ghost.
Black hole is breathing!!
I must be tired, because I don't see this one~ :(
when i look directly at the brown dot, nothing happens. but when i look away from the picture, the brown dot seems to expand in the corner of my eye. when i look back at the brown area it shrinks again. Kl!!
it doesn't work for me. =_=
its jumping around the picture...
Oh my feck it grow and shurk who my lizard died by looking at it. oh well if you like a big big cheese burger!
Holy **** this is getting bigger then smaller wow my lizard died by looking directly at it. Work now come 2 the front 2 sing barney is big and fat by the way DIE!
I agree with Dennis, it shrinks!
mine did the following things in the order I list them in
1 pulsated
2 wiggled
3 shrank and disappeared
weird huh?
it only works with me if i sit further away from the screen, but hey it works!
thats weird. every time i look at it it does something different. get bigger, get smaller, move up and down, side to side... very weird
i got the sceen to turn yellow just stare at it without blinking for a while
look like its moving... bizarre
Okay, well i staired at it for a looong time, and the brown dot almost disappeared, but then it started to move around, That was really weird lol.
yea mine kinda just floated up and down a little and if it did anything with size it shrunk for me
mine isappeard
It did get bigger! Hey btw- who ever said that there was a fce in the center, it was probably just your own reflection on the screen.
im with willet. i got the brown dot to dissappear not expand.
it goes up and desappear, but it does not expand!
it goes up the screen and goes blurry! AHHH! I LOVE IT!
this works becuase ur eyes adjust to the darkness and then the outer fading browns be come darker, meaning the shape appears larger.
mine is shrinking too. hey. i'm going to use this as a plug. If anyone sees this. visit. www.youtube.com/jhernandez16. It would be cool