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Ha cool! How’s it work?
Had a lot of fun trying to break this. Turns out you can screenshot real easily by zooming out. Maybe there are other ways but I stopped trying :)
Fun side effect: staring at the letters for a bit makes the rest of the image move.
Firefox on Android seems to just be a static image, I can't see any text.
This makes me feel motion-sick, which is kind of impressive because I'm normally not easily susceptible to that.
Has anyone tried a long exposure to see if the motion smears into something discernible? Obviously harder to expose a bright screen without some ND since the shutter speed is the phone's main exposure control
You can also break it by recording the screen, of course.
This game disappears if you pause it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bg3RAI8uyVw
Not really a game, but neat all the same.

It reminds me of the mid-1990s video game Magic Carpet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Carpet_(video_game)

This was a pseudo-3D game and on an ordinary display it used perspective to simulate 3D like most games. If you had 3D goggles it could use them, but I didn't.

However, it could do a true 3D display on a 2D monitor using a random-dot stereogram.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_dot_stereogram

If you have depth perception and are able to see RDS autostereograms, then Magic Carpet did an animated one. It was a wholly remarkable affect, but for me anyway, it was really hard to watch. It felt like it was trying to rotate my eyeballs in their sockets. Very impressive, but essentially unplayable and I could only watch for a minute or two before I couldn't stand the discomfort any more.

Another idea I had with this concept is to make an LLM-proof captcha. Maybe humans can detect the characters in the 'motion' itself, which could be unique to us?

- The captcha would be generated like this on a headless browser, and recorded as a video, which is then served to the user.

- We can make the background also move in random directions, to prevent just detecting which pixels are changing and drawing an outline.

- I tried also having the text itself move (bounce like the DVD logo). Somehow makes it even more readable.

I definitely know nothing about how LLMs interpret video, or optics, so please let me know if this is dumb.

Seems trivial to diff multiple screenshots to identify what parts move. Or just use a compression algorithm to do the same.
The text reappears when I screenshot it twice.
I first saw this effect in a video from Branta Games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg3RAI8uyVw

The effect is disrupted by introducing rendering artifacts, by watching the video in 144p or in this case by zooming out.

I'd love to know the name of this effect, so I can read more about the fMRI studies that make use of it.

What I've found so far:

Random Dot Kinematogram

Perceptual Organization from Motion (video of Flounder camouflage)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VO10eDIyiE

Cool. I used the Windows snipping tool and just screen-recorded it.
Coinbase was hacked for $400M when literally someone from outsourced support services was taking screenshots on their phone!

The culprit had more than 10k photos of all security details for thousands of wealthy customers.

You can take TWO screenshots, moments apart, open in GIMP, paste one over the other and choose any one of these laying modes:

Lighten, Screen, Addition, Darken, Multiply, Linear burn, Hard Mix, Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, Grain Extract, Grain Merge, or Luminance.

https://ibb.co/DDQBJDKR

Bottom layer normal, second layer grain extract, top layer vivid light. This completely blacks out the whole area outside of the text.
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For what it's worth, there are some websites that embed some crazy shit when you screenshot. On reddit, r/CenturyClub will fill your background with a slightly off-white version of your username so that they can identify leakers, and I'm not certain how exactly they do it.
What i am supposed to see here? Its just static noisy background
Even is some have found a workaround, this is a cool feature
If you blink really fast, the text almost disappears.
firefox on linux with a bunch of css stuff set to defaults or none !important shows a static image