Another auto post for you! As you are reading this, I’m with my my girlfriend on a 4-day visit to her family. Don’t worry about me not posting – I took my laptop along with me, and with a little luck I’ll manage to obtain appropriate 3G signal and post new stuff in the following days. By the way, I forgot to ask you all how did you spend Christmas? Was Santa good for you this year, or was he “recession-ing” as well? Now that I explained everything, let’s switch to optical illusion part. In both pictures the same phenomenon occurs. The colorful pattern surrounds parallel lines, and creates the illusion that the lines are not parallel.
Examples I posted are a variation of Zollner, Hering, Wundt and Orbison illusion. I never knew the difference between them, so don’t ask. You should check Wikipedia for more. Although the Zollner one, and other similar illusions have not been completely explained yet, they have stimulated much valuable research into human perceptual processes. It may have something to do with the way the brain and visual system perceive the angles that surround the parallel lines. Additionally, the illusion may be enhanced by the impression of depth created by linear perspective.
Cool
weird, looks like in movement
The second one won’t be still!
the second one messes with my head.
those were always cool i think the first one shows the lines better but the second one makes it like wavy
:o!
This is a crazy, stunning effect. I can’t look too long or I start to feel nauseous.
What about the animals from the last illusion?
wow, i saw lots of these illusions but none were as freaky as them!
Sweet
This makes my eyes and brain hurt.
ha im first i think that this is quite cool but it hurts my eyes
These are some nice new versions of this type of optical illusion!:) on my iGoogle the thumbnail one looked cool because the ends looke closer together/farther away (depending on which line) to each other when actually they’re the same
I really like the yellow and black one though… it really does look like theres a rotated square in there! … using my mouse or horizontal scrollbar to assure me its straight:P
NICE ONE! It’s kinda obvious that those lines aren’t parallel at first look…
GOOD JOB!!!
They are cool. Hard to believe that the lines are parallel, but if you put a ruler up to them, indeed they are.
nice First!!!
The second picture is seen here
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/motion-e.html
You are expected to give an clue about how different this is from the one in the above site.
the second 1 looks kinda like its not right, like some little kid cut it out and it looks slanted. the first 1 looks great 4 a bedroom wall paper! scroll down the page from the top really fast while looking at the second one. it looks cool!
for me the on the second one the square disappeared an then it changed pattern weird!
makes me dizzy O_e