Tinselman had a link to these wonderfully confusing images. Nothing is actually moving on the screen – they work if you print them out, too. Here’s a short explanation of the peripheral drift illusion. And I found this article on the science of optical illusions.
6 thoughts on “Peripheral Drift – rotating snakes image”
Comments are closed.
ADVERTISEMENT
Support Make:
Join Make: Community Today
Join Make: Community Today
the link to explanation wasn’t entirely correct. it just points to a pdf with further enhancements to the illusion, it not exactly a short explanation….
Hi,
You can check the research from SIGGRAPH 2008:
http://graphics.csie.ncku.edu.tw/SAI/
Automatically generate animating self-animating images :)
Wow, nice illusion :).
best regards
http://www.pictureresizer.org