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  2. Lilac chaser - Wikipedia

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    Hinton approached Michael Bach, who placed an animated GIF of the illusion on his web page of illusions, naming it the "Lilac Chaser", and later presenting a configurable Java version. [5] The illusion became popular on the Internet in 2005.

  3. Spinning dancer - Wikipedia

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    The spinning dancer is a kinetic, bistable optical illusion resembling a rotating female dancer. The Spinning Dancer, also known as the Silhouette Illusion, is a kinetic, bistable, animated optical illusion originally distributed as a GIF animation showing a silhouette of a pirouetting female dancer.

  4. Illusory motion - Wikipedia

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    Billboards and other electronic signs use apparent motion to simulate moving text by flashing lights on and off as if the text is moving.. The term illusory motion, or motion illusion or apparent motion, refers to any optical illusion in which a static image appears to be moving due to the cognitive effects of interacting color contrasts, object shapes, and position. [1]

  5. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    Any kind of grid that deceives a person's vision. The two most common types of grid illusions are the Hermann grid illusion (1870) and the scintillating grid illusion (1994). The first is characterized by "ghostlike" grey blobs perceived at the intersections of a white (or light-colored) grid on a black background.

  6. Kinetic depth effect - Wikipedia

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    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. In the absence of other visual depth cues , this might be the only perception mechanism available to infer the object's shape.

  7. 2025 Award season buzz: Predictions for Golden Globes and Oscars

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    As the 2025 award season approaches, there's lots of noise in the air. The film industry is abuzz with speculation about potential contenders for the Golden Globes and Oscars.

  8. Troxler's fading - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, moving one's eyes away from the image after a period of time may result in a brief, strong afterimage of a circle of green spots. Troxler's fading , also called Troxler fading or the Troxler effect , is an optical illusion affecting visual perception .

  9. Peripheral drift illusion - Wikipedia

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    Most observers can see the illusion easily when reading text with the illusion figure in the periphery. The motion of such illusions is consistently perceived in a dark-to-light direction. Two papers have been published examining the neural mechanisms involved in seeing the PDI (Backus & Oruç, 2005; Conway et al., 2005).