Mess with your head...its all spinning...

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

Jen

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!

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

Alfred

most of my world looked like that through HS and college

Oops

LOL

Binocular vision? Close one eye & it stops.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I hate it when my brain interpolates...

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

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

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

Jen

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.

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

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

I "Googled" it and you're welcome.

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