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10 April 2009
Warp your room (not your mind) with this awesome illusion
Via speigl.org via verylowsodium:
Instructions:
1. Stare at the image for 10 seconds
2. Look at something — your hand, a book, your friend
3. Enjoy!
For more on illusions — and the delight of our buggy minds — see Al Seckel’s 2004 TEDTalk >>
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Laura Prado
Apr 10 2009If you blurr your view while looking at the image you’ll see it spin so fast! And if you do that and look attentively, you’ll see that the circle becomes crooked.
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Christina Klube
Apr 11 2009I looked at my hand it was going all kinds of different ways. That’s freaky!
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Saleem Chohan
Apr 13 2009This is very spooky!
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peter Fendrich
wow! How can I eat my eggs tomorrow after looking at this? How can I eat anything? :-)