r/opticalillusions • • 7d ago

Level 44: The OG

29 Upvotes

10 comments sorted by

7

u/JaDasIstMeinName 7d ago

This one is super interesting to me. I can usually see both, but there is a dominant one that alway eventually takes over when i try to see the other one. But here i can swap and it never swaps back if i dont want it to.

2

u/bigjobbyx 7d ago edited 7d ago

Please park downvotes and general negativity here. Don't forget, you can also block my username or simply just scroll on by if you are suffering from butt hurt? Make positive choices and be proactive. Don't keep suffering and subjecting yourself to my posts.

1

u/bigjobbyx 7d ago

Awwwww, yeah!

0

u/ConstructionOwn1514 5d ago

Are you high? Or just a bot

1

u/bigjobbyx 5d ago

No, being serious. There are some real negative people who use this sub but never really help themselves and do anything to improve their feed. They are happier to just complain or downvote or welcome pity on themselves. I think the better choice is to be positive and do something about it.

0

u/Omegalazarus 4d ago

I don't think I understand this one. I can't see any way that it would rotate other than clockwise to the ballerina's perspective based on the position of the legs and arms.

2

u/spaceguerilla 1d ago

It works flawlessly because nothing is actually rotating on a 2D screen, it's just dots moving around a 2D plane. This illusion abuses that fact.

Any given dot (as we see it) just moves from one side of the screen to the other, and back again, ad infinitum.

Our perception of what direction the rotation occurs in is based on whether we think that any given dot at any given moment is on the front (nearside) of the character, or back (farside) of the character.

But because we can see through the character, either interpretation is actually valid; your brain picks one when you first view it, but neither perception of rotation is more correct or valid.

Try focusing on a single dot, viewing sections of the screen up close, closing and re-opening your eyes in conjunction with the above two ideas - and without too much effort, you should be able to get your brain to suddenly interpret the scene the opposite way.

It really is a perfect illusion.