My god is there a way to like see it properly???
There’s not; your eyes see the vague white lines formed by the lighter boxes, but when they’re in your peripheral vision your brain is filling in the missing information, and because they’re so close in location, colour, and thickness to the straight lines, your brain conflates the two. This results in exaggerating the white lines so you’re more aware of them than when you’re looking straight at them and can see the outlines of the white boxes clearly, and the white and green lines seem to blend when they’re both in your peripheral vision.
I’ve got a bit of a hangover, or maybe I’m still drunk, I dunno, but when I look at the center of the image and focus, all the lines go straight. I’m also on a phone, so maybe not enough is in my peripheral vision to completely fuck me up.
EDIT: It was definitely the alcohol. I’m more sober now and I can’t do it anymore.
Hahahaha, you dumb bastards.
It’s not a schooner… it’s a Sailboat.
This is hurting my head
I’m curious if this relies on the fact that we’re looking at on pixelated screens to work. But not so curious that I’ll print it out to check.
As far as I know it relies on the fact that you only have clear vision in the central 20% of you FoV, and your brain just makes the rest up. Also the big blind spot
Honestly, idfk. Maybe that’s the blind spot?
Just now looking at things the clear bit of my FoV feels like 20%…which is clearly suuuper scientific. I’m getting ill, and have enough energy to comment on the internet or fact check myself…not both.
I’ve seen this illusion on paper and it still works. Not that printed paper is functionally different from pixels.
That’s clever as hell. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a new illusion.
