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Posted by: Britain Smith Jul 29 2003, 03:09 PM

http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/t2_03.jpg

Posted by: Jenny Jul 29 2003, 03:13 PM

Okay, if you're not paranoid before, you will be after looking at those. Thanks!

Jen

Posted by: ThinAir914 Jul 29 2003, 03:15 PM

Just what is it? It's pretty wierd - stuff only spins when it is in your peripheral vision. When you look right at it, it stops!

Posted by: Alfred Jul 29 2003, 03:18 PM

They don't ever really spin (they're jpeg images) it just seems that way. It's probably our brains interpolating or somethin'.

Alfred

Posted by: TimT Jul 29 2003, 03:19 PM

most of my world looked like that through HS and college

Oops

LOL

Posted by: MarkV Jul 29 2003, 03:22 PM

Binocular vision? Close one eye & it stops.

Posted by: vsg914 Jul 29 2003, 03:28 PM

1970, college at O.U., orange sunshine, flashbacks.
Oh yeah!

Posted by: Mike D. Jul 29 2003, 03:31 PM

nope...

visual memory retention. each circle is a little different and your brain trys to make them all the same. so in peripheral vision they appear to move...

I just made that up...

-Mike D.

Posted by: airsix Jul 29 2003, 03:31 PM

Cool. It's the worlds first animated jpg! I guess you'd call it "passive animation".
That old Russian commic would say "Moving pictures? No. In Soviet Russia picture is move you!"
-Ben M.

Posted by: drew365 Jul 29 2003, 03:42 PM

If you stare at one spot and don't move your eyes they stop moving. I'm sure it has something to do with the refresh rate of the monitor. If you had that sheet in your hand they wouldn't move, I hope. Or maybe they really are coming to take me away, ha, ha.

Posted by: Dave Blackburn Jul 29 2003, 03:56 PM

Try this one. Stare at the center of the spiral for 20 seconds then look at the other picture.
I used to have a vinyl music record with this picture on it. Good party trick.
http://dogfeathers.com/java/spirals.html

Posted by: Pnambic Jul 29 2003, 09:12 PM

I hate it when my brain interpolates...

Posted by: Rob Ways Jul 29 2003, 10:37 PM

OH NO MY EYEBALL POPPED OUT. Well actually it didn't. Cool pict...

Posted by: SirAndy Jul 30 2003, 11:46 AM

actually, you're dead on

look at each pic closely and you'll notice that the black/white stripe next to the green is reverse in every other pic.

your brain "thinks" they're all the same and then trys to adjust for the differences ...

cool!
Andy

Posted by: Jenny Jul 30 2003, 11:58 AM

You're so smart Andy. Your explanation sounds much better than our brains interpolating. That sounds scary.

Jen

Posted by: Mike D. Jul 30 2003, 12:05 PM

Wait, I should be the smart one! I'm the one that came up with what Andy Confimed...

"hey, I get no respect, NO respect!" - r.d.

Good Guesser,
Mike D.

Posted by: Alfred Jul 30 2003, 12:20 PM

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

interpolate

v 1: estimate the value of; in mathematics [syn: extrapolate] 2: insert words into texts [syn: alter, falsify]

Your brain is trying to make sense of what you're seeing and it's "giving its best estimate". You got a better word?

Alfred

Posted by: Jenny Jul 30 2003, 12:27 PM

You know Alfred, it's a good thing you've always got the Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary in your back pocket to keep us all in check. Thanks. Really.

Jen

Posted by: Alfred Jul 30 2003, 12:28 PM

I "Googled" it and you're welcome.

Posted by: Aaron Cox Jul 30 2003, 01:00 PM

lol....make it stop!!!! ahhhh!. thanks. thats cool