As you can imagine, it becomes harder and harder for me to find quality optical illusions, and continue posting them regularly. Often I wonder will a day come, when there is no fresh material left for me to post. Fortunately, there are still few hundred never before published illusions sitting on my computer, but I still highly depend on you guys and gals, and your regular quality submissions. So keep ‘em coming – please! Before you send you submission, ask yourself these questions first: Was my illusion already published on MOI? Is the picture interesting enough? Is the effect good enough? Is the quality of the picture good enough?
For today I picked this tremendous, yet simple example of Disappearing surfaces. Although, you may think this illusion isn’t as complex as you are used to, I promise the effect it holds justifies its presence. Loyal visitors may already experienced this effect through our “Disappearing Act” category, but will probably enjoy this as much as all of our newcomers. What you should do, is simply concentrate on the center black dot, until both of the blue rectangles disappear. Don’t believe me? Try it yourself. It usually takes around 30 seconds or more for the effect to happen. That’s all folks, enjoy!
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Fantastic!
Your doing a great job, keep it up!
I love the illusions that mess with my perception. Things are not always what they appear to be.synesi
WOW!! HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE?! BTW LOVE THE SITE!!!!!!!
Great! Even though I only manage to make the blue boxes fade, not totally dissapear…
That’s so cool! I love stuff like this! Love the site!
awesome! i love these types of illusions! keep up the good work!
Hope you keep posting during the march break,you should look into some books, theres one I have called Masters of Deception, its all categories but different authors, there all great illusions. Anyways, about todays illusion, I don’t think they quite dissapear but they fade out. Keep up the good work!
I blink too much with my eyes, so they didn’t totally disappear, but there was some effect.
Wow!! loved it. What happened to the rectangles? they dissapeared for about 3 seconds.
Wow, it really works. What is strange is that, even though i saw them dissapear, i saw the dots duplicate and the boxes become larger. But anyways, great work. Keep it up.
Nice, but I think it was Photoshopped :)
HELP! The blue rectangles disappeared, but now I see pink rectangles – crazy!
this hurts my eyes; but its awesome :D
great illusion, keep up with this great work !!!
Sometimes only one would disappear and it took a while for me, but finally both boxes disappeared! Wonder if this is ‘easier’ for some?
cool illusion. keep up the good work. I think (this could be a spoiler?) that they dissapear because theyre not in motion and your eyes are focused on the dot, so your brain kind of “forgets” about the rectangles. im not tring to be scientific or anything but in other illusions like this one, the dot in the middle or something like that are usually moving to draw more attention from your brain (or something like that). This is what ive heard from other sites…
Cool! Does anyone know what it is that causes us to see that disappearing effect?
It took about 3 seconds for them to disappear on me.
Great, they really did disappear. After moving my eyes I saw them again with a red shape around them. Does anybody recognize this effect?
I think its really cool. when u 1st look at it your mind tells u – “yeah, right” this isnt gonna work. and then it does. the mind/brain-are they one of the same? these type of illusions shows us the capacities of chamilians (did i spell that right?) that are among us right in our “sight”.?
didn’t work for me i just got red hazes round the edges that made them look 3d
amazing,your illusions are always great,strange,interesting,funny.rosa
While daydreaming (dazed staring), I discovered that I can see things others can’t see – or do. I can see a color and it’s opposite at the SAME time. I can see the color of a person’s energy around them. Because I’ve been doing this for some time, staring at that black dot does NOT make the rectangles disappear. What I see is both the light green and it’s opposite color (red/ pink) around the edges of each box.
I think it works because the colors are so light. If the squares were darker, it might not work.
whoa dude !!!
this is so obviously fake. You can see some photoshopped it. You guys are idiots.
it happened pretty quickly for me….like 5-10 seconds. one block at a time. then i broke concentration for a second n the edges of the block came back but only like a pinkish highlight around them. then actual pink blocks in a diff spot than the originals.
maybe ive done too much acid in the past lol
very nice tho
14 seconds!
OAHHH, THAT’S COOL, it’s one of the best you have published.
Excellent Illusion! It worked in about 10 seconds for me!
It was like… The edges faded away then the rest of the driangles dissapeared!! COOL!!!
Ur illusions were nice so far
Don’t worry about ur computer, and those people, they’ll send great stuff to you…
This is an example of Stabilized Fading
I love this illusion… Its really weird.
And it hasnt been photoshopped… At least i dont think it has been.
it works but as soon as my head moves i see the boxes again
how this works: the blue light from the boxes hits your retina and triggers what-ever parts make you see blue. these parts of your retina get tired and you can’t see blue in that part of your eye.
The gradual change between the box and the background is a poor stimulus for sustaining visual perception. However, if you allow your eyes to freely move over the stimulus (the boxes) the perception of it will be sustained.
If for example the were a dark border around each box, or even one that would be enough to sustain the stimulus and thus the boxes (or box) would not disappear.
When the stimulus is a gradual change, the change in stimulation is so slight as to approach that encountered by the steady state condition of a stabilized image. As a result the boxes fade, or dissolve into the background.
very cool ;)
Surely great! I think this happens because of the light!
It wasn’t really 30 seconds, they were gone in 3!
Google “Troxler fading”. This is what the illusion is demonstrating. In short, the photoreceptors in the periphery become desensitized to the stimulus due to image stabilization on the retina. A good real life example is the blood vessels at the back of your eye. You don’t see them normally because they are stable on the retina however if you shine a light into the eye and cast a shadow of the vessels on the retina then it is sometimes possible to see them for a short period of time.
WOW it works and sort of looks like a door with windows :D…
i agree it only fades or at least one completely dissapears and the other doesnt
took 7 seconds, then i tried it again and it took 2 seconds,, after that i could look at the black dot and the boxes would disappear right away!!!
p.s.(to the dumbies who have something against photoshop) what does it matter if it was photoshopped??? its still an optical illusion…the impssible truangle thing is usually photoshopped too!!!
anyways…i <3 this site and have it on my desktop so that i can see a new illusion everyday!!!
keep up the good work!!!
<3 M.
For those of you who asked how this is possible. Its preception with the eyes and how your brain processes the image.
HINT: the squares are lightly coloured compared to the dark dot
it´s great, how do you do that??
this amazing, I wish I had found this site years ago
WOOOAAAHHH! thats so cool tell me how it works!