I sat at the monitor for 15 minutes with pieces of paper, trying to expose the trick. Interestingly, if instead of arrows use the words "left", "up", "down" will the effect remain?
The optical illusion was tweeted on November 25 and bombed. Thousands of man-hours are lost, hundreds of thousands of leaves are attached to the screen.
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Even Elon Musk retweeted:
And Stephen Pinker:
Someone says that this is how the votes were rigged in the American elections.
Storyboard thin contrasting lines.
If you close the arrow in the center, then the illusion of movement remains:
The secret is in the contour lines:
Here is the "investigation" with the imposition of neutral contours and the removal of the arrows:
More experiments , rotation stabilization helps to reveal the mechanics of this illusion .:
Playing with the contours:
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Previous illusion by the same author:
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