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  2. Wagon-wheel effect - Wikipedia

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    The wagon-wheel effect (alternatively called stagecoach-wheel effect) is an optical illusion in which a spoked wheel appears to rotate differently from its true rotation. The wheel can appear to rotate more slowly than the true rotation, it can appear stationary, or it can appear to rotate in the opposite direction from the true rotation ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Spinning dancer - Wikipedia

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    The illusion derives from the lack of visual cues for depth. For instance, as the dancer's arms move from viewer's left to right, it is possible to view her arms passing between her body and the viewer (that is, in the foreground of the picture, in which case she would be circling counterclockwise on her right foot) and it is also possible to view her arms as passing behind the dancer's body ...

  5. 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 refers to the phenomenon whereby the three-dimensional structural form of an object can be perceived when the object is ...

  6. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    The Hering illusion (1861): When two straight and parallel lines are presented in front of radial background (like the spokes of a bicycle), the lines appear as if they were bowed outwards. Hollow-Face illusion: The Hollow-Face illusion is an optical illusion in which the perception of a concave mask of a face appears as a normal convex face.

  7. Praxinoscope - Wikipedia

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    Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. The praxinoscope improved on the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors, [ 1 ] placed so that the reflections of the pictures appeared more or less stationary in position as the wheel turned.

  8. Musk and Ramaswamy won't be paid to lead new Department of ...

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    Elon Musk said he and Vivek Ramaswamy will not be paid for leading the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency.. Musk, the Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder, and Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur ...

  9. 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. Although the image is static, the snakes appear to be moving in circles.