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nr2x
I can’t believe he’s still updating this, thanks so much for the link. Been years since I saw this. The guy is straight-up hacking your visual processing system!
ku-man
I am sure I am not the only one but some of the illusions do not work for me, and some only work after reading the description. Does your brain needs to be trained to 'get' the illusion?
flyinghamster
I've noticed that as well - but others just about leap off the page for me. Also, some only seem to work at certain distances, or if I am moving, or if I'm scrolling the page.
toyg
Vision is deeply entangled with pattern recognition, so it makes sense: feeding data into your brain about what it's expected to detect will help with detecting it. It's counterintuitive, but in the end vision is not really the low-level signal we think it is, but rather a pretty high-level conceptualization.
skc
What's curious for me is that I've visited these illusions before in the past and over time I've noticed that I've gradually stopped experiencing a growing number of them.
kristopolous
I like the hit counter with 129 million at the bottom
TonyTrapp
Seen many of those countless times on the internet without credits. Great to see the original source, thanks for sharing!