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  2. Wagon-wheel effect - Wikipedia

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    Video of the propeller of a Bombardier Q400 taken with a digital camera showing the wagon-wheel effect Video of a spinning, patterned paper disc. At a certain speed the sets of spokes appear to slow and rotate in opposite directions.

  3. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    An autostereogram is a single-image stereogram (SIS), designed to create the visual illusion of a three-dimensional (3D) scene from a two-dimensional image in the human brain. An ASCII stereogram is an image that is formed using characters on a keyboard. Magic Eye is an autostereogram book series. Barberpole illusion

  4. Spinning pinwheel - Wikipedia

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    The spinning pinwheel is a type of progress indicator and a variation of the mouse pointer used in Apple's macOS to indicate that an application is busy. [ 1 ] Officially, the macOS Human Interface Guidelines refer to it as the spinning wait cursor , [ 2 ] but it is also known by other names.

  5. Whirligig - Wikipedia

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    Whirligig store. A whirligig is an object that spins or whirls, or has at least one part that spins or whirls. It can also be a pinwheel, spinning top, buzzer, comic weathervane, gee-haw, spinner, whirlygig, whirlijig, whirlyjig, whirlybird, or simply a whirly.

  6. Orientation column - Wikipedia

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    Pinwheel formations in the primary visual cortex with singularities in the center. Each color represents an orientation column of a specific line phase. Adapted image from fMRI studies. [11] Using 2D optical techniques, pinwheel formations (also known as whorls) of orientation columns were discovered.

  7. Kinetic depth effect - Wikipedia

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    The Spinning Dancer is a kinetic, bistable optical illusion resembling a pirouetting female dancer. The dancer can be seen to be spinning alternately one direction, or the other. In visual perception, the kinetic depth effect is the phenomenon whereby the three-dimensional structural form of an object can be perceived when the object is moving.

  8. How Emma Hayes wants to revolutionize U.S. soccer

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    She was outlining her paradigm-shifting vision for U.S. soccer. She’d been refining it for months, but really, she said, “I feel like I've worked on this my whole life.”

  9. Thaumatrope - Wikipedia

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    A spinning rectangular thaumatrope with the alternating letters of the name "Victoria" on each side, showed the full word with the letters at two different distances from the observer's eye. If the two strings of the thaumatrope are attached to the same side of the card the thickness of the card accounts for a small difference in the distances ...