Whichever, Optical Illusion Animation

This film is the creation of Yutaka Akita. This short film has bits and pieces of many favorite illusion topics such as recursive, fractals, tessellations, and perspective. He describes this video as follows:

"This is application experiment of optical illusions commonplace in 2-D animations in 3-D spaces. The animation develops through illusions caused by concurrent different perspectives of simple lines and surfaces. It is a non-narrative film aiming to make viewers feel bizarre yet fascinated by a feeling of floating between real and unreal."

whichever
Uploaded by yutakaaki

For more films from this artist go to this site. Here is a short biography he provided on his Dailymotion page.

"Born and bred in Yokohama, Japan. After a study of Byzantine art at Waseda University, surprisingly Yutaka started his career in the film industry where crazy yet creative people are working hard every night and day to make something amazing. Couple of years after, he alone went all the way to the UK to cultivate his style and techniques as an animator/director. And here he is, working on a variety of projects including promotion video for Madame V spring/summer collection 2012, James Bryan “Beautiful World” video, etc. He also worked for Johny Mourgue, one of the film director in FLYNN Productions and made a pitch for Beck’s album “Cell Phone’s Dead” TV spot. *showreel available on requests."

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Pacman Optical Illusion

This is an amazing optical illusion.

I found this illusion on several sites on the internet. One semi-popular link farm spent 6 pages of comments discussing this optical illusion. Many were confused about what this optical illusion was all about so let's start off with the following. (If all goes well you might see something like the small image to the right).

1. The below image is an animated gif file.
2. The image is composed of 12 frames, each frame has 11 purple dots on a gray background.
3. These frames are designed so it looks as if one dot is removed at a time progressing clockwise.
4. There is no green dot in this image at all.
5. There is no green dot in this image at all.
6. There is no green dot in this image at all.
   

Stare at the center cross, you will notice a green dot start going around the circle. As you continue to stare the green dot will appear to consume the purple dots until all that is left is the green dot circling the cross, then the purple dots will reappear one by one until they are all visible again.

Jeremy L Hinton
Copyright 2004
Used w/permission

Simply put the reason you see the green dot is because that is the afterimage (or negative) of magenta.

For a more thorough explanation of how this optical illusion works go here.

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Mathematical Illusion 64=65

I was pointed to this mathematical illusion by Pardalote Flits. This illusion presents something you know to be false in a simple visual way that might confuse your senses.

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All of Our Mirror Sites are in Trouble

Due to unknown causes all of the mirror sites for Optical Illusions Etc have met with or currently are experiencing disasters.

This mirror site sprung a leak and will be underwater soon.
This mirror site is currently under attack by alien ships.
This mirror site is undergoing a massive meteor shower destroying everything.

The other sites are also experiencing unusual attacks. I will update you as we receive more information.

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Sketching 101

Click on the image below, flash is required. It'll take a while before you really notice what's going on, but a woman is being drawn, from the inside out.

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13th Man Optical Illusion

Here we have an animated gif file. If you look closely you can count 12 little people. After the gif slides the image around you end up with 13 little people. How does this happen? I saw the same optical illusion done once with solid colored rectangles, the rectangle one is easy to see what happens, but this one is much more difficult because it is people.

If your brain starts to seize up and you must have an answer then click on the picture and it will take you to laurenceholbrook.com where they devote a lot of words and images to making this possible to understand.

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Rats on Parade

This is a creepy animation. I found it at zoneflash.net The site is in French and I don't understand a word, but it has some good interactive flash animations. Go to their site and try a few links, I think this interactive animation is fascinating, move your cursor through and around this flash and see what happens.

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The Zoom Quilt

The Zoom Quilt is a patchwork of images sewn together to give you the illusion of a 3d world. It is a collaborative art project based on Macromedia Flash that illustrates what a 3D Zooming User Interface (ZUI) might look and feel like.

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Trippy Mirror Animation

This optical illusion is an excellent example of a recursive animation.

Click on the link below the animation to go to the creator's site.

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