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[–] [S] 64 points 3 days ago* (25 children)

If you're not already familiar with the Rotating Snake Illusion, here it is (view full size):

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago

    Before I knew what clickbait was, I posted this image to the Winamp Forums 20-some years ago with a title something like, "I found an animated JPEG".


    First time I saw the image, I printed it out too because I thought some sort of digital fuckery was going on. Never thought to test it on a cat, though...

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  • [–] 19 points 3 days ago (18 children)

    Is it normal that it doesn't move at all for me? tried all the tricks, like not looking directly at it. Displayed it full size, looked directly at it. Even at the "snakes" tongues.... Nothing.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago

    Scan your eyes quickly across the full size image a couple of times. The more you wiggle your eyes, the more it moves.

    If I just fix my eyes at one point in it, it does not move for me either. I suppose people for whom it wriggles all the time must have a good amount of saccades constantly going on, or just do the cat thing naturally (look at point A, it does not move, but all the rest starts moving, so look at point B, B now stops, but all the rest including A starts moving, etc)

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  • [–] 9 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    What are your feelings on Elon Musk? If you think he's a super cool industry leader, I hate to break it to you, but you're an LLM generated in a lab and your memories are false

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Now I'm curious and overly-invested. Do you mind writing what unique colors you see here? Don't worry about the pattern, just list each color you see once.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago* (3 children)

    Well, we're all different and how our brains are wired can affect how we see things. It is known that people with schizophrenia don't see optical illusions in the same way most people do.

    Not saying you have schizophrenia, but if you don't see optical illusions at all or very faintly then I guess it's not "normal" in the statistical sense. Most people do see optical illusions.

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