Optical Illusions - The Rotating Snakes
The illusion above is called “Rotating Snakes.” Can you see them moving? The apparent motion of the illustration is due to a visual illusion known as peripheral drift. The motion appears in your peripheral (to the side) vison when black and dark grey lines or white and light gray lines are drawn side by side. If you like this type of illusion, there are many more for you to view at Akiyoshi’s illusion pages.
Warning: This post contains some works of “anomalous motion illusion”, which might make sensitive observers dizzy or sick. Should you feel dizzy, you should leave this post immediately.
January 31st, 2006 at 4:12 pm
WOW! At first I thought it was the computer moving the snakes until I put my mouse close to one of the tongues.
February 8th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
Wow, that is very interesting and It really give’s me a headache.
February 8th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Wow! that makes me dizzy,….cool!
February 11th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
I am so speechless, that all I can say is wow!
February 12th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
That’s really cool Mr. H! It’s amazing what the human eye does.