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Cool Illusion - Motion Induced Blindness (michaelbach.de)
76 points by dean on Aug 14, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


Posted earlier here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2884268 Discussion's already started on that post.


I observe an even stranger illusion... When staring at one of the yellow dots, I see a blinking cross in the middle, instead of a blinking green dot.


If you keep blinking continuously you don't lose sight of the yellow dots. But this is so strange!


I wonder if this could be used in a game to get units to sneak closer to the player... but they were there the whole time, and scare that user.




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