Saturday, August 27, 2005

Interesting Illusion

Stare at the + without blinking for ten seconds and see what happens.



The dots disappear!

The phenomena is called "motion-induced blindness". It was discovered by Yoram Bonneh, an Israeli neuroscientist.

Here's a site that explains more...

4 Comments:

Blogger laughingboy said...

...at least they're not pink!

8:42 AM, August 28, 2005  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

way cool James. We missed ya. :)

6:51 PM, August 28, 2005  
Blogger Camilo said...

hey there! I can't find this specific version of motion induced blindness in the website u give.
Did u find it somewhere else? or did u make it yourself?

12:22 PM, January 23, 2006  
Blogger laughingboy said...

camilo:

I didn't make the illusion.gif animation - it was sent to me in an email long ago.

If you do find the source, let me know and I'll acknowledge them here.

12:31 PM, January 23, 2006  

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