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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. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    The Moon illusion is an optical illusion in which the Moon appears larger near the horizon than it does while higher up in the sky. Motion aftereffect: Motion illusion: Müller-Lyer illusion: The Müller-Lyer illusion is an optical illusion consisting of a stylized arrow. Multistable perception: Necker cube

  4. Zoetrope - Wikipedia

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    A zoetrope is a pre-film animation device that produces the illusion of motion, by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion. A zoetrope is a cylindrical variant of the phénakisticope , an apparatus suggested after the stroboscopic discs were introduced in 1833.

  5. Spinning dancer - Wikipedia

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    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. The illusion, created in 2003 by Japanese web designer Nobuyuki Kayahara, [1] [2] involves the

  6. File:Optical illusion created by spinning disks.webm - Wikipedia

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  7. File:Spinning Dancer Optical Illusion (2040 frames).ogv

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    English: This is a conversion & extension the "Spinning Dancer.gif file" with 34 frames & 1 second of play time to the OVG format with 2040 frames and 60 seconds of play time. The intent is to allow the user to start and stop the display without the distraction of continual play.

  8. Optical illusion - Wikipedia

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    Optical illusion is also used in film by the technique of forced perspective. Op art is a style of art that uses optical illusions to create an impression of movement, or hidden images and patterns. Trompe-l'œil uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that depicted objects exist in three dimensions.

  9. 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.