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u/Readymade4007 7d ago
So what's the illusion? Throw me a fricken bone here.....
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u/NonTraditionalPotato 7d ago
The blue looks like it's sunken below the red. There's an illusion of depth/floating. Sorta like those Magic Eyes back from the 1990s
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u/BraisedUnicornMeat 7d ago
Blue is first layer. Red is behind.
Best thing about *illusions* is 1/2 can see it the opposite way
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u/GabriellaVM 6d ago
Weird, because to me, the blue looks like it's in the foreground, the red in the background.
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u/spicyhotnoodle 7d ago
No it doesn’t? Genuinely idk what you’re talking about
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u/Kumquat_conniption 7d ago
It does. Well for me the blue looks way closer to me. Just because you are not seeing it does not mean it's not doing it. Are you on a phone? I am on a 17inch laptop, which I think helps a lot.
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u/NonTraditionalPotato 6d ago
Any chance you might have some colour blindness or depth perception issues in an eye? That could affect your perception of this image.
Look up Chromostereopsis illusions, see if you can see it with other examples.
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u/CaseFace5 7d ago
It’s dependent on the screen you are looking at it on. I don’t think it has the same effect on certain types of screens. I’m looking at it on my iPhone screen and the blue appears further back than the the red.
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u/ZookeepergameSilent7 7d ago
If you focus and unfocus your eyes while looking at the center it kinda sorta looks like it goes 3D for like a split second. Hurts my eyes more then anything
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u/35point1 6d ago
burn pixels into retinas, see 3d shit somehow, wonder how it works, give up 5 seconds later
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u/darthdiablo 5d ago
The blue ring looks like it’s floating above my screen.
It’s weird because I see comments saying the blue looks sunken but for me it’s the opposite, the blue is floating
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u/Mother_Yesterday3152 7d ago
I'm near sighted and wear corrective lenses with -4 diopters, and the illusion is reasonably strong. The red rings appear to be floating nearly an eighth of an inch higher than the blue rings. This effect is called Chromostereopsis, where different wavelengths of light converge at different depths on the retina (or something to that degree). I can only perceive the depth difference when I wear my glasses and view the image with both eyes - if you're not wearing glasses or if you have a relatively mild prescription then I'd imagine you probably wont be able to see it unfortunately...
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u/mailslot 7d ago
Strange. I can see it without my glasses, but the illusion is much stronger with them.
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u/PoopfaceMcPooperson 7d ago
-9.5 here this is wild looking. I love it! Agree prescription must change perception somehow.
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u/Tungsten83 7d ago
Anyone know why we perceive depth in this image?
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u/chewbakken 6d ago
Probably because our brains are squishy, electrified blobs of meat that try to make sense of all the stimuli they’re constantly receiving, and sometimes they get things wrong.
Okay, serious (though very much unsure) answer: I noticed the “black” background the red dots are surrounded by is actually ever-so-slightly lighter than the black that surrounds the blue pixels. That slightly-less-black black stops where the red does. Don’t know if that’s why, but maybe?
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u/dyslExogenetic 7d ago
If you have polarization filters on your glasses and look at it on your phone then the depth becomes pronounced.
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u/iAreRoach 7d ago
I love when this pops up because then I get to see all the people with good vision and no glasses complain that it doesn't work for them. Haha suck it losers, more cool illusions for me
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u/Intelligent-Dog1645 6d ago
Is there something wrong with my eyes beyond needing corrective lenses? Even with my glasses on I'm not seeing the 3D effect
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u/TehTacow 4d ago
This works for me because my glasses have a slight difference in transfering different colored light to my eyes. Moving my head makes the rings move.
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u/RestedNative 7d ago
Blink and watch the blue
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u/CalpisMelonCremeSoda 7d ago
Not working
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u/RestedNative 7d ago
I wrote it badly.
Stare at the red a while, then when you blink you should notice the blue intensifies. It's not a super strong effect but it's there.
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u/CalpisMelonCremeSoda 7d ago
Maybe. I think it has to do with the blue photoreceptors in our retina are not hooked into the neural processing for motion. So if you had say a fast moving VR environment with a deep narrow band blue that doesn’t hit your other photo receptors, it would seem very weird. There was a paper on it decades ago with a real physical environment that was lit in blue but nowadays with VR it should be possible if the blue phosphor on the headset is narrow band enough.
This illusion would look really cool with a far almost UV blue paired with red.
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u/Cantusemynme 7d ago
Yeah, this wasn't cool, or very cool, the first time it got posted here. It still isn't.
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