I think that is is perhaps the best ‘moving image’ illusion that I have ever seen….
However, every time I post something like this, many people simply cannot see the ‘movement’. Surely everyone gets this illusion?
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June 24, 2010 at 5:34 am |
As an astigmatism sufferer and being very short sighted, to get it to move (and move it does!) I have to vary the distance between me and the screen.
June 24, 2010 at 5:38 am |
It does move for me, but only a little bit and no where near as much as others you have previously posted.
June 24, 2010 at 5:38 am |
For me, it alternates between moving and not, and when it moves, it alternates between rippling and one layer sliding under diagonal bars.
At first, it seemed static, but then I ran my mouse pointer over it, and its started moving.
June 24, 2010 at 5:42 am |
It seems to move along with my saccade. It would probably work better if it were full-screen instead of a little tiny postage stamp.
June 24, 2010 at 5:42 am |
It moves, but I have seen others that move better and more dramatically for me.
June 24, 2010 at 5:42 am |
I see no movement, from whatever distance I look at this picture.
(I see movement in many other images like this one) but I see waves building up (in 3d) occasionally. The 3d effect vanishes near the advertisement part.
June 24, 2010 at 5:45 am |
barely
underwhelmed
June 24, 2010 at 5:55 am |
This is actually one of the worst that I’ve seen. Usually they move quite a lot, but this one only moves a bit, and only if I let my eyes go out of focus. Odd…
June 24, 2010 at 6:00 am |
I did get a little movement. I think there would be better results if we could get a much larger image. I think it would be really great with a full screen image.
June 24, 2010 at 6:08 am |
I just see a very slight ripple … sometimes.
June 24, 2010 at 6:14 am |
I don’t see any movement at all while I always see it!
June 24, 2010 at 6:16 am |
Which part is meant to move? Nothing’s happening for me!
June 24, 2010 at 6:17 am |
Sitting close, staring at a spot near the middle for 10 sec, then leaning slightly back and forward works a treat for me.
June 24, 2010 at 6:20 am |
while i normally see these easily, this was harder. i found that i/the screen had to move in some way in order to see a rippling effect (e.g., changing my distance from the screen, or scrolling up/down to the image).
June 24, 2010 at 6:21 am |
I do recall the advert for this -
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_StG-TzxEvmY/SF9nM7nTrBI/AAAAAAAAAJU/KuDKLP2NQbg/s400/THE%2520COMMUNARDS%2520-%2520NEVER(SAN%2520PAULO%2520REMIX).jpg
being in Smash Hits. The movement (in the original print version, which was really bright) was a great advert for a poor song.
June 24, 2010 at 7:10 am
You got something to say about the Communards you can say it to me.
June 24, 2010 at 6:33 am |
others usually move – this one does not
June 24, 2010 at 6:35 am |
Sorry, nothing happening/moving :0(
June 24, 2010 at 6:45 am |
If I look directly at it there is no movement but if I move my eyes back and forth across the picture it looks like its moving
June 24, 2010 at 6:48 am |
Just fuzzy on the borders between the colours, but no movement.
June 24, 2010 at 7:06 am |
I don’t get much movement unless I zoom in on it. Then I get a lot.
June 24, 2010 at 7:07 am |
nothing….it’s just mildly irritating
June 24, 2010 at 7:12 am |
Nothing
June 24, 2010 at 7:25 am |
Nope – doesn’t move for me at all.
June 24, 2010 at 7:27 am |
It moves a bit if I move my head while looking at it, but it’s not a patch on the grey one you posted a while ago.
June 24, 2010 at 7:38 am |
It didn’t move for me. But when I read the first comment I leaned forwards and it moved a bit and then again as I moved back. I’d agree with others that some of the previous ones that you posted are much better.
June 24, 2010 at 7:47 am |
Static for me.
June 24, 2010 at 7:54 am |
Barely moves for me, seen much more active colours.
June 24, 2010 at 8:03 am |
It doesn’t move, i think this is a bluff on your part
June 24, 2010 at 8:17 am |
Yes it moves, but I’m mystified as to why you think it is the ‘best moving image’ ever…
June 24, 2010 at 8:22 am |
Sorry, no. It seems a little undefined when I actively move my head towards or away from the screen, but that’s it — static the rest of the time. Viewing on a MacBook Pro.
June 24, 2010 at 8:29 am |
This is the first one you’ve posted that I cannot see move! If I scroll the screen a bit it sort of flickers out of the corner of my eye but that’s about it
Normally I see these things immediately.
June 24, 2010 at 8:30 am |
I think Herr Wiseman is playing with us.
June 28, 2010 at 1:06 am
I agree with you Fergus. I think Richard is playing a suggestive mind game with us. It doesn’t move for me no matter how I look at it.
June 24, 2010 at 8:37 am |
Cannot see this move at all. First such image which is claimed to move that does not.
June 24, 2010 at 8:40 am |
It moves for me a bit if I move further away or closer to the screen and also it moves slightly if I move my eyes around the picture. If I just look at it, it does not move! I can see a 3D wave effect though!
June 24, 2010 at 8:48 am |
I think the image is too small to get the effect. If I increase the image size to almost full screen I get the movement effect, but not very much. I think that is because the image is quite poor quality when viewed at that size. Do you have a higher resolution version?
June 24, 2010 at 8:51 am
Here’s a bigger version
http://www.ibelieveinadv.com/commons/ibbra2.jpg
June 24, 2010 at 9:07 am |
If I move my eyes repeatedly around the image then it moves a bit… I’ve seen WAY better illusions though. So it seems that different illusions suit different people best?
June 24, 2010 at 9:13 am |
It works very well for me. I like to think of this ability as a sign of intelligence.
June 24, 2010 at 9:14 am |
I can see it move (it helps if the image is larger), but it’s not nearly as good as your Twitter background (http://twitter.com/RichardWiseman) which is really impressive, the best I’ve seen.
June 24, 2010 at 9:30 am |
Nothing at all, I’m afraid, as has happened with some of the others posted here.
I just moved it to another screen and enlarged it; still nothing.
June 24, 2010 at 9:36 am |
Absolutely moves for me, yes.
June 24, 2010 at 9:49 am |
It only moves as my eyes move across the image. If my eyes are still the image does not move.
June 24, 2010 at 9:49 am |
Definitely moves this end. Also, staring at the centre of the image from a distance seems to produce a static 3D effect: channels with actual depth and height.
Very cool use of illusion for advertising purposes, wethinks.
However, when it comes to mind-altering wibbly wobblyness, your twitter background is far superior!
June 24, 2010 at 9:49 am |
I get an overwhelming urge to buy a Sony Bravia TV. Tell me you’ve not sole out, Wise Man!
June 24, 2010 at 10:17 am |
Barely noticeable.
June 24, 2010 at 10:19 am |
No movement at all.
June 24, 2010 at 10:56 am |
It only moves very slightly, in my peripheral vision, but it does give me a headache when I look at it.
June 25, 2010 at 8:31 pm
Two days later, and it just moved. I was looking at the post above this, and almost jumped when something randomly started rippling on the screen. Interesting, an illusion that sneaks up on you…
June 25, 2010 at 8:33 pm
Ehm, one day even, judging by these dates. I blame work.
June 24, 2010 at 11:36 am |
I don’t know about movement, but I can see a bunny rabbit and a beautiful butterfly and they both remind me of my childhood.
June 24, 2010 at 11:36 am |
Only slight flickers now and then. Nothing definite. I’m red-green deficient, though, so that might have something to do with it.
June 24, 2010 at 11:40 am |
As with all of these types of images, they don’t appear to move but I can make them move by scanning my eyes over the image. Think I first saw this type of image in the early 1990s at uni, so I probably now look at them with my eyes dead still rather than a (more typical?) scanning pattern.
June 24, 2010 at 1:04 pm |
Normally, with your posts like this, I do see some type of movement. Sadly, none with this image.
June 24, 2010 at 1:06 pm |
I have dusteranopia, so I thought that was my color-blindness that did not allow me to see this movement, but reading comments above, it seems that is not due to my color-blind condition.
June 24, 2010 at 1:07 pm |
It moves for me! Usually those types of moving image illusions do not work as well for me.
June 24, 2010 at 2:49 pm |
How odd, I thought. It’s the first time it doesn’t move for me. As I sat up and approached the computer to comment, it moved! *sigh of relief*
June 24, 2010 at 3:05 pm |
Nope
No movement whatsoever for me, with or wothout my varifocal glasses.
June 24, 2010 at 3:35 pm |
No movement if I just look straight at it. If my eyes move around I see some movement. If I scroll the screen I get movement. I saw no movement with one of the ones you posted earlier, and completely saw the movement with another.
June 24, 2010 at 5:28 pm
To clarify: This image = no movement unless I scroll it up and down.
“I can’t believe this is a static image” (Feb.) = no movement.
Dancing Figures (March) = yes movement.
June 24, 2010 at 3:40 pm |
No movement.
Could it be because I am blind on one eye?
June 24, 2010 at 3:45 pm |
Lots of movement. Every illusion you post works for me.
June 24, 2010 at 4:38 pm |
It looks slightly 3-D, but doesn’t move for me. [glasses, astigmatism, and all]
June 24, 2010 at 4:39 pm
The one titled “I cannot believe this is a static image” [Feb. 18, 2010] moves much more for me and seems to have more depth.
June 24, 2010 at 8:51 pm |
I just noticed that movement comes to a near standstill when the screen is low put on brightness. I suspect that high contrast is very important to make this illusion work.
June 24, 2010 at 11:24 pm |
It doesn’t move at all for me.
June 25, 2010 at 12:05 am |
I figured out that it moves when your pupils dilate and undilate (or whatever you call it). I conducted an experiment by having someone switch the lights on and off while i was looking a it and it moved a great deal more than when the lights were just left on for a bit or left off.
June 25, 2010 at 12:13 am |
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June 25, 2010 at 7:47 am |
This moved for me straight away, it sort of ripples. To get it to keep working I just blinked.
Wish it were that easy to see those bloddy magic eye things-them I just can’t do!
June 25, 2010 at 11:18 am |
No
June 25, 2010 at 12:13 pm |
It does move, even if I look ‘through’ the image in a 3d stereographic image way.
no just kidding it’s just fun to look at patterns that way.
It’s a pattern and I test every pattern I see for hidden 3d stereographic images
June 25, 2010 at 12:41 pm |
It only moves when I move.
June 25, 2010 at 1:25 pm |
Again, monitors matter… it appears. At home (CRT) didn’t moved, at work (TFT) it appears to move (sometimes). The effects is a kind of ripping in the image when the perception wonders in that direction…
June 25, 2010 at 3:41 pm |
This one seems to move the most dramatically of all these illusions I’ve seen.
June 25, 2010 at 11:08 pm |
A good ‘movement’ illusion:
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp7/threespeed79/4709218010_02c33e4240_o.jpg
June 26, 2010 at 12:14 am |
It moves only very slightly for me. I get a much more intense sense of movement from this:
http://www.moillusions.com/wp-content/uploads/i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb234/vurdlak8/illusions/psycodelic1.jpg
Chris
(Does Richard read these followups or ever reply?)
June 27, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Agree. Yours move beautifully. And I’m speaking from the monitor where that illusion doesn’t happen usually (CRT).
PS.: At least, the puzzles he follows… I never saw him discussing them but he is quick to make corrections or recognizing something is wrong.
June 26, 2010 at 9:22 am |
This moves alot for me. Most of the illusions moves for me.
June 26, 2010 at 10:18 am |
Yeah it moves, the bigger version. Not the best one I’ve seen.
The purple circular one is the *BEST*. Forgot the link, but I saved the pic. It moves like a fan without having to do strange thing to your eyes, and even when shown in directory as small image. Scary.
June 27, 2010 at 5:05 am |
I can see the movement well. I have seen similar pics on my third year Ph.D usability research class.
June 27, 2010 at 2:19 pm |
Nope, no movement whatsoever for me.
June 28, 2010 at 2:22 am |
Nope, unlike many of the past ones, I cannot make this one move. Could it be due to a small 15″ laptop screen?
July 6, 2010 at 5:11 am |
I see the image moving only when I’m moving, changing my viewing angle to the image.
July 8, 2010 at 10:29 am |
As far as i know you only see things like this moving when you are tired.