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Thats crazy. I love things like this.

there are more of them on that page. Worth exploring.

lol, nice. Reminds me of my psych work at uni.

is there a scientific explanation? be interesting to read - like, why the brain is "ignoring" the purple data that your eye is nonetheless recieveing

Very nice find.

Know this one for years but always amazes me.

Bdw3 wrote:Holy crap. :icon28:

That is freaking awesome. :icon26: :icon14:

Wow.. O_O!!

thats pretty cool
also, when you suddenly click it away, youll still see some of the green dots around :icon14:

Zyte -_- wrote:Very nice find.

Know this one for years but always amazes me.

those dont do anything for me, cept the first. how odd

WTF!? I didn't even have to stare at it. As soon as I opened the page I saw a green dot moving around the circle and when I look away I could see an entire ring of green dots.

bitWISE wrote:WTF!? I didn't even have to stare at it. As soon as I opened the page I saw a green dot moving around the circle and when I look away I could see an entire ring of green dots.

Colour blind?

Deji wrote:

bitWISE wrote:WTF!? I didn't even have to stare at it. As soon as I opened the page I saw a green dot moving around the circle and when I look away I could see an entire ring of green dots.

Colour blind?

Maybe my inner eye is so strong it owned the hell out of that page...

urgrund777 wrote:is there a scientific explanation? be interesting to read - like, why the brain is "ignoring" the purple data that your eye is nonetheless recieveing

It's been a while since I learned about it, but it has something to do with how quickly cones can "reset" themselves after being subjected to intense light. The cones become "fatigued" and are unable to reset themselves quickly enough to respond to the next dot. IIRC, it has to do with the red dot being replaced with white (if you watch carefully, when a dot disappears, it becomes brighter than the gray background). I think this has to do with rods and cones interacting, and how rods can reset themselves quicker than cones. The same would not happen if the rods aren't stimulated at the same time (by fading the red dots to black, for example).

I did the same as you, Bitwise

Pho, if you focus directly on the green dot and then follow it around the circle you should be able to see that there actually isn't anything there.

I guess our eyes are just lazy fucks.

bitWISE wrote:Pho, if you focus directly on the green dot and then follow it around the circle you should be able to see that there actually isn't anything there.

I guess our eyes are just lazy fucks.

I'm not sure there actualy IS a green dot to focus on there bitwise.

Kracus wrote:

bitWISE wrote:Pho, if you focus directly on the green dot and then follow it around the circle you should be able to see that there actually isn't anything there.

I guess our eyes are just lazy fucks.

I'm not sure there actualy IS a green dot to focus on there bitwise.

I know that...read my posts a little closer

bitWISE wrote:Pho, if you focus directly on the green dot

I'm not english but I'm pretty sure I'm reading that right.

Kracus wrote:

bitWISE wrote:Pho, if you focus directly on the green dot

I'm not english but I'm pretty sure I'm reading that right.

Pho, if you focus directly on the green dot and then follow it around the circle you should be able to see that there actually isn't anything there.

As I stated in my first post, as soon as I look at the page I see a green dot looping around the circle. Pho appears to have the same problem. It wasn't until I read the description and then did what I described above that I could actually tell there wasn't anything there. And I could still barely tell it wasn't there.

[xeno]Julios wrote:http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/col_rapidA ... index.html

Trippy.

This one hurts to look at after a while: http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot_rotsnake/index.html

bitWISE wrote:

Kracus wrote:

bitWISE wrote:Pho, if you focus directly on the green dot

I'm not english but I'm pretty sure I'm reading that right.

Pho, if you focus directly on the green dot and then follow it around the circle you should be able to see that there actually isn't anything there.

As I stated in my first post, as soon as I look at the page I see a green dot looping around the circle. Pho appears to have the same problem. It wasn't until I read the description and then did what I described above that I could actually tell there wasn't anything there. And I could still barely tell it wasn't there.

Right...

Let me explain something to you. If something isn't there... you can't focus on it k? don't matter how hard you try.

Don't be pedantic. You know what he meant.

Well the reason teh circles are dissapearing is because your eye leaves a reverse colour imprint of the circle on your eye causing the green circle which isn't there it's just an imprint on the back of your eye in reverse colour.

So you A: can't focus on it and B can't possibly open a page and instantly see green dots you know?

Well I knew what he was trying to say. You're just stupid.