An optical illusion

February 24, 2008 7:56 PM

Stare at the dot for 30 seconds. Then, without moving your eyes, move the mouse over the image. The image will look like it's in color until you move your eyes. (How make your own | More examples)
posted by sveskemus (12 comments total)

1) site down
2) i think this is a double
posted by mrnutty at 7:59 PM on February 24, 2008

3) it's pretty cool, anyway
posted by mrnutty at 8:00 PM on February 24, 2008

Ah yes, here's the first one
Will I be the only person in this thread?
Everyone else watching the oscars?
posted by mrnutty at 8:02 PM on February 24, 2008

Ah, crap. I did search but not thoroughly enough obviously. :(
posted by sveskemus at 8:06 PM on February 24, 2008

I'm supposed to be working.
posted by carter at 8:06 PM on February 24, 2008

That's pretty cool!

(You know, the problem with the whole "double" thing: this is something I would never use search here to look for. Why would I? What would I be looking for? I don't cruise the back pages of Metafilter looking for random cool stuff, as the web is ephemeral, and half the stuff in the archives is probably dead. So, if this is a double, how would I have ever seen it?)
posted by maxwelton at 8:06 PM on February 24, 2008

Weird. (Also not watching Oscars.)
posted by Snyder at 8:07 PM on February 24, 2008

I remember seeing this a year or two ago, and then saw it three times today. The internet is weird like that.

sveskemus, where'd you find it? Daring Fireball?
posted by danb at 8:15 PM on February 24, 2008

Yeah, I stumbled across it on Daring Fireball.
posted by sveskemus at 8:16 PM on February 24, 2008

d00dy
posted by mistersquid at 8:27 PM on February 24, 2008

the problem with the whole "double" thing: this is something I would never use search here to look for. Why would I?

Because it makes sense. You don't even have to do a Google for it. Tag: opticalillusion (also used for this post). CTRL-F "Spanish". Pops right up on my screen. Total time taken to find duplicate: around 15 seconds.
posted by meehawl at 8:35 PM on February 24, 2008

Because it makes sense. You don't even have to do a Google for it.

I think maxwelton is saying as a reader (not a poster) there's no reason to go back and search through random tags in the mefi archive for these kinds of links.

Very cool, I kept trying different things to see if it was a website trick other than the optical illusion.
posted by shinynewnick at 8:45 PM on February 24, 2008