By Vurdlak on September 28, 2011, with 98 Comments
Either once again I failed to explain the difference between simple animated gifs and cinemagraphs, or I really stink at choosing illusions for you :D Shame you didn’t love our previous post as much as I did, but heck – there is no purpose for me to push something you really don’t like. I hope today’s animation will be perceived better, as it has nothing do to with cinemagraphs and the effect it holds is a truly epic!
Check this out: wait for the warping animation below to get running. Then, when you cover up the center of the image with your hand (just like in the example showed on your right) the dots will appear to speed up. On the other hand, if you cover up the edges the dots will appear to have slowed down. Now if this isn’t illusion, I really don’t know what else to show ya’.
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Bravo!
You have restored my faith in your selection skills. *laff.
Thanks for all your efforts.
Definitely Excellent, I like this better than the ones where you have to search for the illusion rather than why it is one.
I liked the cinema graphs… please do more. I think those who didn’t like them couldn’t appreciate the subtlety of their creation. Today, it’s all about More, Faster, Bigger, Louder… people don’t want the flower, they want the whole garden with birds, wind, and sunbeams.
These dots form a 3D effect (what you called “warp”).
Seems to me that when I cover the middle, the apparent increase in dots speed is accompanied by a flattening of the 3D – the dots seem to radiate more in a plane.
When I cover the edges, the 3D effect increases: the slower dots in the middle appear to me as if I’m looking at them down a tunnel or tube.
That the dots are indeed radiating differently at different radii is necessary for the original “warp” effect. Moving rapidly through a real 3D array of random dots, I would indeed see the dots in the center appear to move more slowly. The dots near the center represent the “distant” stars; more outward, they represent the ones I’m just now flying past.
Whoa!
this is not an illusion, it’s a trick, an animated gif. the dots in the edges move faster than the ones in the middle, originally.
So no wonder that if you cover the centre, you notice that the dots in the edges mover very fast, and if you cover the dots in the edges you see that the dots in the middel mover slower.
Proof: look only in one edge, then cover the centre and notice there is no difference.
Look at the centre, cover 2 edges and notice there is no change in the middle.
i agree and i posted befor i read any o the coments so i infact said the same thing a a few have already my appoligies
This made me upchuck. But in a good way.
Yes – it’s not an illusion, it’s reality. The dots literally move slower in the center, then accelerate out of the picture at the edges.
It was already posted as “easter egg” at:
http://www.moillusions.com/2011/05/weird-perspective-soldiers.html
“Yes – it’s not an illusion, it’s reality. The dots literally move slower in the center, then accelerate out of the picture at the edges.”
agreed
Try to make circle in center
it rather easy to figure out the larger dots in the center are in fact moving slower then the much smaller dots on the out side edge by cover one of the 2 it appears to speed up and slow down a nice trick but easy to over come thnx tho enjoyed
The dots don’t speed up, the outer dots always look faster than the inner dots, so when you cover the inner dots it looks faster.