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McLean’s Optical Illusions: The Desert – optical illusion disc which is spun displaying the illusion of motion of a ball with a wedge-shaped piece missing passing through a hoop and of a monkey swinging on branches of a tree and a zebra jumping through an opening between two trees in a circle at the outer edge of the disc.
Complement with The Disappearing Bicyclist.

McLean’s Optical Illusions: The Desert – optical illusion disc which is spun displaying the illusion of motion of a ball with a wedge-shaped piece missing passing through a hoop and of a monkey swinging on branches of a tree and a zebra jumping through an opening between two trees in a circle at the outer edge of the disc.

Complement with The Disappearing Bicyclist.

Carl Zimmer reports on new research explaining the famous “Rotating Snakes” optical illusion through “microsaccades” — the involuntary jumps our eyes make.

Carl Zimmer reports on new research explaining the famous “Rotating Snakes” optical illusion through “microsaccades” — the involuntary jumps our eyes make.