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« on: Apr 15th, 2010, 10:56am »
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How many black dots do you see?
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Re: How many black dots...  
« Reply #1 on: Apr 15th, 2010, 11:42am »
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If I stare at it long enough, I only see one dot, and that one is white.
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Re: How many black dots...  
« Reply #2 on: Apr 20th, 2010, 11:33am »
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I think that is the most annoying optical illusion I've ever seen...
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« Reply #3 on: Apr 20th, 2010, 1:03pm »
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Oh, there are worse, imo.
 
How about  

 
(a bigger version would be better, but one has to make due)
Apparent motion illusions drive me nuts.
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Re: How many black dots...   Illu2.jpg
« Reply #4 on: Apr 20th, 2010, 8:53pm »
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I created one by mistake and sent it through to Akioshi Kitaoka (the creator of the one that towr just posted).
He was seemingly quite impressed.
I offer it here as well...
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Re: How many black dots...  
« Reply #5 on: May 2nd, 2010, 5:42am »
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on Apr 20th, 2010, 8:53pm, Noke Lieu wrote:
I created one by mistake ..

 
By mistake ? What were you trying to create anyway ?
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« Reply #6 on: May 3rd, 2010, 9:14pm »
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I was writing notes about volumes of cylinders... and MS Word offered this...
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« Reply #7 on: May 17th, 2010, 1:14am »
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Have a look at the winners of the best visual illusion of 2010 here: http://www.newscientist.com/special/best-new-visual-illusions-2010
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Re: How many black dots...  
« Reply #8 on: Dec 13th, 2012, 4:33am »
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There's no black dots.
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« Reply #9 on: Dec 24th, 2012, 3:32am »
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Yes mate
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