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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. Visual snow syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Visual snow is a phenomenon where a person perceives visual disturbances, such as fine graininess or "static," in their field of vision. This can occur in low-light conditions, in the dark, or when the visual system amplifies light perception.

  4. Entoptic phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    The first two sort of floaters may collect over the fovea (the center of vision), and therefore be more visible, when a person is lying on his or her back looking upwards. Blue field entoptic phenomenon has the appearance of tiny bright dots moving rapidly along squiggly lines in the visual field.

  5. Stroboscopic effect - Wikipedia

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    Stroboscopic effect is one of the particular temporal light artefacts.In common lighting applications, the stroboscopic effect is an unwanted effect which may become visible if a person is looking at a moving or rotating object which is illuminated by a time-modulated light source.

  6. Peripheral drift illusion - Wikipedia

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    Illusion similar to Rotating Snakes. Rotating snakes is an optical illusion developed by Professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka in 2003. [1] A type of peripheral drift illusion, the "snakes" consist of several bands of color which resemble coiled serpents.

  7. Motion aftereffect - Wikipedia

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    Example movie which produces distortion illusion after one watches it and looks away. The motion aftereffect (MAE) is a visual illusion experienced after viewing a moving visual stimulus for a time (tens of milliseconds to minutes) with stationary eyes, and then fixating a stationary stimulus.

  8. Doctors Say This Nighttime Behavior Can Be A Sign Of Dementia

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    Here's how to distinguish "sundowning"—agitation or confusion later in the day in dementia patients—from typical aging, from doctors who treat older adults.

  9. Spinning pinwheel - Wikipedia

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    The spinning pinwheel is a type of throbber 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.