I had this illusion on my laptop for quite some time now. It looks very simple, but worked for me only yesterday. If you concentrate hard enough on the image center, after a while all three yellow dots will disappear! Don’t believe me? Try it for yourself! It may take some time and concentration, but the effect is amazing. Similar to “Find your blind spot” illusion. Remember that one?
Anyway, I just finished designing cool Wordpress theme, and bought great hosting, the only thing I need just now is someone to help me transfer all the posts from this site automatically, and import them to Wordpess blog. Anyone has some experience? The “Import” button in wordpress 2.2 doesn’t work. I think it has something to do with blogger changing RSS feed recently. I would really appreciate all the information I can get.
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i can only get 2 to disappear. btw wat happened to all the guest editors or watever
Cool！
Excellent!!!!
Nice. :) I’ve so far gotten only 2 to disappear, but I’m sure if I worked harder, I’d get all three. It seems to me that the person made it deliberately hard, as the swirling blue dots distract the eye from staying focused on the center. :P
Actually, it is the blue dots swirling that make it possible for the yellow to “disappear”. Your brain percieves the yellow dots to be unimportant to the whole picture, therefore dismissing the yellow dots.
COOL though!
I have found that it helps to put my cursor in the middle of the image and look at it so I don’t get distracted quite as easily. It gives a focal point to look at. :-)
I got all of them to disapear. So sorry that I can’t help you out with that wordpress thing, but good luck anyways =)
Just got all three, that is awesome.
Awesome, they really disappear.
wow! how can you explain something as crazy as this!
for some reason, the dots were actually increasing… at last count, i could see 5 dots. :D
was bit difficult for me to concentrate on the centre so I tried concentrating on one of the yellow dots and after sometime the others disappeared!
Oh, that’s Great!!
============================Here is some help ===========================
Save the yellowdotdisappear42893.gif to your desktop (right klik and “save as…”). Open it with window-viewer for faxes and images. In the bottom bar there is an option to view the image as a slideshow. Hit the button and hit pauze. Now your whole screes is black and you see only the dots – no distraction.
I open every image like this to have a clear and undistraced view!
Hope it helps…
pretty cool
I had 5 dots then suddenly only one in the middle, if i moved only the slightest they’d start coming back
Wow… I just watched for 3 sec with cursor in middle… and they disappered! :-)
I have one word for this SWEET!
The one on the top left easily disappeared and did so first, and the other two disappeared at the same time. Anyone have the same experience?
It’s amazing how as soon as you move your eyes from the center that the yellow dots immediately come back.
What a cool illusion!
Insane…
i can get all three to disappear but only for a second
wow this is really cool!!!
it only works for me tho if i put the cursor in the middle and concentrate on that
I cant get the image to appear, it usually does, though. Btw, I’m using Safari for Windows as my browser. It has definately fully loaded though.
What Chrille said is the best advice.
Put your cursor in the center of the image and concentrate on it.
this things well good but it partially blinded me haha
wow! Thats really clever, but i could only get 2 dots to dissapear if i concentrated on the other dot.
If you look closely you can see that the blue dots disappear as they approach the yellow dots… this has something to do with how it works I’m sure =]
that was cool
this is really cool, they disapeared for me one or two at a time, but they all disapeared at last! must be something about hte blue dots
I first had 2 dots to disapear ,
then suddenly they turned to 4 dots !!!! :) Wierd
I got all three that’s cool
whoa, the bottom one disapeared for me just staring at it blankly, but thats it, and then it popped back.
I do this all the time with random small objects when I’m bored in class or something. It really can be done anywhere, the blue dots aren’t necessary, that fact that they are there just makes it more impressive. With practice, you can even kind of look around with the certain object gone.
Wow, awesome…if you get good enough you can kind of control which points disappear and make them wink at you!!
Fantastgoric!!!!!
The upper left, then the lower
center disappears first, for me.
Ed
That is really cool, at first I couldn’t focus on the middle because the blue dots were really distracting so I put my cursor in the middle of the image and in 5 seconds the 3 yellow dots disappeared.
Really cool illusion.
oh wow!! all 3 of them disappear at the same time!! when i tried it the 2nd time, 2 of them disappeared..its freaking cool…lol =]
The trick is to ignore the blue swirling around dots. If you can focus entirely on the black background (which I’m sure our brain is telling us is empty space) then your brain fills in the details from your peripheral vision with what it assumes is there… ie: nothing!
Pretty weird…
this is soooooo cool !!!!!!
I don’t believe anonymous commentor #6 has it right. If the brain sees the yellow dots as irrelevent, then they wouldn’t reappear so easily when your eyes shift slightly. My understanding is you continue to see the blue dots because they are registering on the retina in different places. The yellow dots, on the other hand, are being “seen” on only three fixed areas of the retina, fatiguing the nerves at those spots, so their firing is dampened.
Once your eyes shift, other nerves in the retina respond, making them visible again, until you fatigue those nerves by staring.
Excellent… Thanks!
That is pretty cool although i had to try a few times before i got the idea!(-:
I think photoreceptor fatigue plays a role. When I stare at a cursor in the center, the cursor and yellow dots start to “ooze” a darker black shadow. They also blink off and on.
Does anyone else get a shadow effect?
Very cool! They fade, fade, fade until they aren’t there anymore and I just see the blue dots swirling about…
omg so cool!!!!
they kept flashing back up 1 by 1 but i atlast got them to go wicked!!!
cool.cant say anything else
I can get 2 to disappear and then I will see 5 dots.
. . . .That’s wild. *stares*
Hey this is really cool! I tried it with one of my friends and it worked! I don’t normally get illusions but this one is rally cool and I saw it right away.
It is really cool check it out!
only one disappeared for me..hmmm fun though! : )
only one disappeared for me..hmmm fun though! : )
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