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[GarryP]

Just a strange little thing I came up with while experimenting with various things.

[Wosven]

I'm wondering what will happen if I keep on at looking at it more than an handfull of seconds... Will I fall inside and disappear?

[GarryP]

Ha. Better not risk it, just in case.

[GarryP]

Here’s a different version which is a bit more ‘trippy’.

[jmwellborn]

@GarryP  if you blink your eyes quickly while looking at it, it appears to rotate counterclockwise.  Amazing!

[dannyg9]

Very cool work. I think that's the best when something comes out of no particular intention and what was tooling around becomes something rather brilliant.

[GarryP]

jmwellborn: I can’t get it to do that for me but maybe I can’t blink my eyes quickly enough.

danyg9: Thanks. I like experimenting because I don’t have much artistic skill; I often tend to ‘bash things together’ just to see what happens.

[jmwellborn]

7 hours ago, GarryP said:

jmwellborn: I can’t get it to do that for me but maybe I can’t blink my eyes quickly enough.

“Practice makes perfect.”

[jmwellborn]

@GarryP The plot thickens.   I tried it yesterday with my iPad.  Just discovered that with my iMAC, retina screen, M1 chip, if you blink at around 2-3 times per second it rotates clockwise.  If you blink 10-12 times per second it rotates counterclockwise.😉

[GarryP]

I’m still not seeing it but my eyes aren’t what they once were – cue people asking what they have changed into.
If I stare at the centre for a while it kind of rotates slightly but the effect lasts only a fraction of a second.

[Alfred]

20 hours ago, jmwellborn said:

If you blink 10-12 times per second it rotates counterclockwise.😉

That sounds impossibly fast, Jennifer! I can only assume that you’ve had more practice at fluttering your eyelashes than I have. 

[Alfred]

20 hours ago, jmwellborn said:

I tried it yesterday with my iPad.

Handheld? Some images, like this one (rather appropriate for Valentine’s Day!) from visual illusions specialist Akiyoshi Kitaoka, show internal movement if you jiggle the display:

[jmwellborn]

@AlfredFrom side to side and at a diagonal, yes.  Up and down, not as much.  Maybe my IPad has an astygmatism?