This was sent in by a blogger from Sweden! How about making chess cheaters stare at this for an hour straight? 🙂
Here is the link to the artist (Akiyoshi’s illusion). Thank you for sending it!
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
A mind blowing picture
Fascinating illusion!
The wheels…They are turning.
Wait…I think there’s a message from Planet Xenu in there….
That is definitely a weird pic. Anyone know the science or reason behind the perceived motion?
I Love staring at it. really cool.
This optical illusion titled “Rotating Snakes” is copyrighted by its creator Akiyoshi Kitaoka
Copyright A.Kitaoka 2003 (September 2, 2003)
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English language site:
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Akiyoshi’s Illusion Pages:
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/
~akitaoka/index-e.html
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Do not worry or become upset if you cannot see the illusions. I must confess that even I do not see some the illusions. For instance, the Ponzo illusion, if the image is the upper-converging version, is difficult to see. (October 16, 2004)
The picture reminded me of my first public computer animation.
There is a low resolution version of it on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnPa4gL7HpE
Allthogh i’m aslo a quite dumb swede, this (RGB-mixed, and not so blue & yellow) mandela is more hindu inspiered than it
ought to be.
Question 1. How many balls are there?
Q2. How many lamps are shining?
Q3. How can I improve the movie?
Write me a line if you would like to have the source code to play with.
(it is a small and quite simple “povray” program)
I’ll compute a HDTV version as soon as i get linux up and running with some spare time on my new computter.
And then, the calculations will take some weeks to perform.
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html
Akiyoshi’s illusion pages
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/caution.html
“CAUTION Some of the pictures on this website can cause dizziness or might possibly epileptic seizures. The latter happens when the brain can’t handle the conflicting information from your two eyes. If you start feeling unwell when using this website, immediately cover one eye with your hand and then leave the page. Do not close your eyes because that can make the attack worse.”
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/caution.html
Not funny and ill-advised that chess cheaters should be made to view an Akiyoshi illusion as punishment. This is not the artist’s intention!
“Not funny and ill-advised that chess cheaters should be made to view an Akiyoshi illusion as punishment. This is not the artist’s intention!”
You literal-minded twit.
artist?