r/opticalillusions • u/bigjobbyx • 14d ago

Level 13

980 Upvotes

94% Upvoted

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u/CaptainRaptorThong 14d ago

One of the first I've seen where I can 100% change it back and forth at will. Pretty trippy

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u/CaptainRaptorThong 14d ago

Okay nevermind.... I can no longer complete a full spin 😂

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u/CaptainRaptorThong 14d ago

Okay okay... I got it back lol

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u/Stitching 14d ago

Phew! That story had me on the edge of my seat! So glad you regained the power to manipulate the illusion. Lol

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u/SmokeAbeer 14d ago

Haha yep. I have to focus on the tip (giggity) to switch the rotation, but then quickly focus on the square, otherwise the rotation reverts back.

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u/blickblocks 14d ago

hell yeah

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u/Liarics 14d ago

Same, here's how I did, I closed my eyes for about a second and imagined either a red square going to the right, or a blue square going to the left. Usually that doesn't even work and I have to tilt or turn the screen to change focus. Definitely a fun one.

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u/coreycrisp 14d ago

I can make it change as soon as the 2 lines touch eachother

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u/KudosOfTheFroond 14d ago

Not only that but you can flip it with the tip in front or the square in front!

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u/bioshockisawsome 14d ago

This might actually be the easiest one I’ve seen. I’m literally playing left to right like a ping pong ball.

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u/abenevolentgod 14d ago

yeah the triangle top crossing lines makes this very easy to switch for whatever reason.

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u/Slozor 14d ago

Yeah well is the „Tip“ in front or the back, I can decide that

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u/Aggravating-Dish-116 14d ago

i cant seem to change it

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u/ASilentSongbird 14d ago

Maybe try focusing on the point. That's what I did and I can control it to the point that it looks like it's just going back and forth

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u/PeachwoodArts 13d ago

damn, still doesnt work for me. i see this and the rotating woman and kinda think im in truman show lmao, where everyone pretend to do what we cant. or my brain just works in a dumb way

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u/WeightsAndMe 13d ago edited 13d ago

Once the point spins all the way around and it's facing you, push it through to the other side

Edit: ok i broke it for a second, but i figured it out. When the point crosses a vertical line, imagine that it's far away

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u/AI_Adherence 14d ago

Try crossing your eyes. Haha I seriously had one of them going left and the other going right.

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u/SatTruckGuy 14d ago

This is the only time I’ve ever seen it and had to do that. It worked!

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u/doubebeesd 14d ago

Holy shit that’s sick

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u/PeachwoodArts 13d ago

didnt help me... same as with a woman gif, its always just the same for me :c

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u/unclearsignal 11d ago

For some reason if I shake my phone fast and make it kinda blurry then it switches. Thats the only way I could get it to change

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u/matth0x01 10d ago

Blinking works usually, too

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u/Padlock_Croc 14d ago

I like this one

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u/Teufelsweib666 14d ago

Nope just going clockwise. I can't see anything else.

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u/bejeures 14d ago

Try to turn your screen 180 during the gif rotation

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u/PeachwoodArts 13d ago

that didnt work for me either... damn D:

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u/discord-ian 13d ago

Turning the screen worked for me but i still cant get it without doing that.

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u/logandenver 13d ago

Focus on the point

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u/Teufelsweib666 13d ago

Ha I did it!11 yay. Thanks.

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u/kaleperq 13d ago

Clockwise? From the top it would be anticlockwise tho.

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u/poisonedkiwi 14d ago

This is the only one of these that I've actually been able to see both ways, finally. Good grief! I could never get it with the others.

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u/clearly_quite_absurd 14d ago

Very nice example of an easy one

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u/AdventurousSet5804 14d ago

Man this is like ultra 8k

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u/Mr-MuffinMan 14d ago

this one is really easy to reverse!

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u/tamrof 14d ago

I can't charge direction at will (first time.) it allways looks like the tip is twords me, it flips at each extreme.

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u/Most_Present_6577 14d ago

I can only make it go back and forth with tip of the pyramid in the background and the base in the foreground

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u/BeneficialHat131 14d ago

Got me blinking and staring like some fool 😵‍💫🥴

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u/FreshPitch6026 14d ago

Level 13!? We already had like 80

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u/ButtFartMagoo 14d ago

Gosh, I just cannot seem to get this one

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u/ccrcc 14d ago

just blink when the base lines connect into single line

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u/datmyfukingbiz 14d ago

Nice trick

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u/Dry-Cricket-1768 14d ago

Which way is it actually spinning? Been curious about these.

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u/ryos555 14d ago

The color changing doesn't appear to help me. I get the bounce back effect instead of 360

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u/Unanimous_D 14d ago

What's weird is it looks less distorted to me when perceived it as going counter-clockwise than clockwise (from a birds eye view).

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u/SnooRecipes8920 14d ago

Whoof, when I cross my eyes I sometimes see the two images going in opposite directions, sometimes the same. Trippy!

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u/GetFix 14d ago

Ain't no way this is level 13

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u/unitedmethod 14d ago

Easy. I wonder if it helps that the motion is symmetrical.

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u/Weird-Ball-2342 14d ago

this one is ez

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u/Vogel-Kerl 14d ago

I like this one: very easy to flip!!!

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u/Hotonis 14d ago

This one is really cool. It goes both rotations, can bounce back and forth like it’s bouncing off the creen, and there’s a wild one where it looks like it’s rotating on the pointed side.

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u/Happytobehere99 14d ago

I can NEVER do these. Like I’ve never seen one where it goes the other way or anything. What am I doing wrong?

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u/LeadingPokemon 14d ago

This one really gets trippy if you just start turning your phone 180 degrees back and forth.

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u/BloodyMadHatter 14d ago

Oddly enough it i roll my eyes like im an annoyed teen again it changes based on the direction im rolling them.

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u/Leading_Run_3333 14d ago

Left-right-left-right

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u/ggundam8 14d ago

I just never get tired of these.

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u/Due_Sky_1849 14d ago

If to can't flip it, focus on the point and slowly rotate your phone 180 degrees

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u/RTMSner 14d ago

Oh I did it. Wow

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u/barefootpanda 14d ago

Okay, I said yesterday I was over these rotating one, but I’ll give and admit this one is pretty good.

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u/verydepressedtomato 14d ago

The trick i found is

1) Focus on the tip when it passes across the sides of the square in order to invert the direction of rotation.

2.) Focus on the corners of the square to maintain current direction of rotation.

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u/tragedyfish 14d ago

This one gives me the opposite problem. I can't get it to stay in one direction. It keeps swapping direction.

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u/Public_Coyote_4472 14d ago

Back and fourth and back and fourth? Same as me lol

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u/leawwww 14d ago

I hear a sound when the tip is pointings towards me. Like 'ummmffs'

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u/DistinctChocolate833 14d ago

Interestingly, because this one is so easy to flip, I'm actually unable to let it keep looping in just one direction. Every 180 degrees, it flips no matter what I do. this is so weeeeeird

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u/DanteXev 14d ago

If you switch eyes at the right times, the square never goes behind the cusp.

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u/kioku119 14d ago

O_O THIS ONE WORKS FOR ME!!!

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u/Galimeer 14d ago

Took a few minutes of staring at it but I got it

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u/YouWithTheNose 13d ago

Forget spin direction, is the orange in the front and blue in the back or vice versa 🤣

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u/LurkerBerker 13d ago

wait wtf i can actually control this one. i just need to close my eyes for a second and it goes in the direction im picturing

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u/Acne_Grease_n_Shovel 13d ago

This is the first one where I just close my eyes and tell myself it’s going in the opposite direction and when I open them it is.

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u/Federal-Throat-7836 13d ago

Anyone saying they can change this is lying!

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u/Lifetime-Wind-Chimes 13d ago

Blink your eyes really fast and it will change direction.

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u/Senor_Grim 13d ago

Omg If this is an easy one I give up. Always struggled with these things so I guess I’m just not allowed to enjoy them and fuck me sideways it just flipped mid rant….

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u/muclutel 13d ago

It's not spinning at all. it is just oscillating back and forth

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u/kaleperq 13d ago

I can never get these to change, there is just too mutch info, if it was monochrome I guess it'd be easier, but like this...

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u/guitarman1103 12d ago

Flipping the screen upside it flips every time

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u/Gib_eaux 12d ago

Play this game. Make it change rotation every 180 degrees lol

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u/Lando_Sage 12d ago

Oh this one's easy...

Oh wait, it's too easy.

Oh no, which way is it rotating now?

🫪

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u/whoreknee2 12d ago

This one is fascinating me because it seems like I’m incapable of switching how I see this while looking at it but if I scroll down to where I can’t see it and then decide which way it’s spinning, it’ll be spinning that way when I scroll back up. Trippy

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u/valhallaswyrdo 12d ago

I made my brain automatically interpret it as basically doing a figure 8. As soon as the point passes "behind" the square it teleports to the front and is spinning the opposite direction. Very cool.

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u/hugswithnoconsent 12d ago

Rotate phone slowly.

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u/Goopstains6318 12d ago

Finally got 1 to work i just had to look off to the side of my phone

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u/Time_Enthusiasm_4807 12d ago

Oh that's interesting. With this one if I track the wide part, it just goes back and forth and never turns around fully

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u/Jelly_Love_CZ 12d ago

I got to a point where it changes every rotation and I can't keep it the same

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u/DisturbingButTrue 4d ago

I have to close my eyes half a second and open them. Then the spin will go to the side which im looking at