Time Fountain Video Illusion

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Hy everybody! Today I brought you two more cool illusion video clips! First one is called The Time Fountain, and gives you illusion of stopping time, and going into history. The device in the video creates the illusion that a simple stream of water droplets can defy the known laws of physics. With controlling a set of flickering LEDs, the dripping water can appear to slow down, freeze in mid-air, and even reverse in direction - Interactively! If you like this as much as I do, here is a link of building your own. Another updated illusion is Transparent Screen one. I added really cool video to the site, which you have to see! Enjoy them both, and if you like these videos so much, few more can be found on the site. Check dragon illusion, purple haze and Ames room.






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  1. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Cant see it but i bet it is AWSOME

  2. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Very cool, but i have seen it before..

  3. Blogger Kalthia 

    It is very cool.

  4. Blogger Michael 

    http://cre.ations.net/creation/the-time-fountain

  5. Anonymous At School 

    WICKED that is so COOL

  6. Anonymous Anonymous 

    wiggy

  7. Blogger Parasane 

    I'm definitely going to try to build my own. What a conversation piece!

  8. Anonymous wikiwak 

    Took FOREVER to load on dial-up, but very interesting to see. Love your site!! I check it out almost every day.

  9. Anonymous Jesse 

    trippy

  10. Anonymous bufar 

    New favorite illusion.

  11. Anonymous mandi 

    this is so insane. i love this kind of stuff. it's wicked and you need to get some more.

  12. Blogger Vandigo 

    I've seen something very similar to this before, they are so friggin cool . . .>.>

  13. Anonymous Ninety-Three 

    You just blew my freaking mind!

  14. Blogger Cedric 

    hello, I'am under linux, and cant find where I could see all those videos (I have the same problem with our previous post)

    thank for this great site

  15. Blogger Cedric 

    nevermind, the problem was adblock plus

  16. Anonymous Anonymous 

    I GOT IT! I FIGURED OUT HOW IT WORKS!
    the film is in slow motion and the guy is just moving the sticky thing really fast DUHH!!!!!!!!........ LOL

  17. Anonymous Anonymous 

    im not smart enouf to get it.

  18. Anonymous Anonymous 

    This is awesome. I simply love your site everything about it is awesome!

  19. Anonymous laura 

    this iss cool but i dont get the first bit

  20. Anonymous daingtwins 

    don't get it. D: all i saw were some yellow drops of water falling.

  21. Anonymous Anonymous 

    It's actually the lighting that is fooling your brain. The effect is called aliasing.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliasing

  22. Anonymous Anonymous 

    you are blatently playing the video backwards, its not hard!

  23. Blogger jonathan 

    I dont get it. do you need sound?

  24. Anonymous Anonymous 

    i bet its fake

  25. Blogger rai 

    nope its not fake... and not a video trick...didn't you read the top part... it's illusion using strobes of light... it flashes light just in the right moment so as you always see the drops at the same place... making it look frozen... make the strobes slower and the water will look like it's slowly dripping... make the strobes faster and it will actually look like it's going back in time... simple illusion... but VERY cool... im impressed.

    rai

  26. Blogger josh 

    maybe something to do with elctromagnetics?? i am just guessing because of the coils in the picture of the device.

  27. Blogger Jvr 

    For all of you who think it's fake or he's palying the video backwards or such... it's just 'simple' engineering put to a cool use; here's the "for dummies" explanation.

    Imagine I'm at the top of a (not so tall) building with a bunch of basketballs... I'm gonna drop them to the ground one by one every half a second let's say. Each will be dropped from the same exact spot and thus their fall will be identical.

    Now, you have your eyes closed. You open and close them for just an instant (what do you see? a 'picture' of a ball falling down). Then you open and close them again exactly half a second later (you see the SECOND ball falling, but in exactly THE SAME place)... you do it again half a second later (third ball in the exact same place)... get it? after a while, you'll think there's only one ball, floating in the air.

    Now let's say instead of opening your eyes every half a second, you do it a little faster (0.4 secs). When you see the second ball, it won't have fallen to the same exact spot as the first one yet; it will be a little higher. The next time you open your eyes, the third ball will be a little higher... and so... after a while it looks like you're watching a single ball going upwards....

    Got it?


    GREAT WORK!

  28. Blogger Ryan 

    It's not fake. It is very easy to understand. The drops are falling at the same exact speed at the same exact rate. The strobe lights on the side are timed so precisely that the drops can only be seen at certain points in their fall. This allows him to time the flash of light to go off at the exact time a drop is in an exact place, so you are instead of seeing one drop floating, you are seeing fifty drops, but only when they are in the exact same spot as the last. It's very clever.

  29. Anonymous Anonymous 

    i dont geddit...

  30. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Wow some people are dense..If you read the post that went with the video you might have relaised that is the LED that make ur brain think ihey t going slow or backwards...They flash at different speeds.

  31. Anonymous Elliexx ANIMALS ROCK!! 

    very kl!!

  32. Anonymous Anonymous 

    the music is beautiful...great oboe solo at the end : )

  33. Anonymous yoyo 

    i want one




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