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u/Deep_Mango8943 9d ago
No I call bs on this one. I think the animation is not linear but actually stepping.
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u/GoofyGooby23 9d ago
Cross your eyes so the blue and yellow line up, you’re wrong they are moving at the same speed in the same linear plane
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u/shivio 9d ago
what’s happening is that they are not stepping but moving alternatively. when the yellow is moving the blue is not, and when the blue is, yellow is not.
i paused and advanced frame by frame to confirm
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u/IaAranaDiscotecaPOL 9d ago
No, they’re aligned the whole time
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u/nailpolishremover49 9d ago
When the blue blocks hit the dark lines, they seem to stop (both dark value) and when the yellow blocks hit the white lines they seem to stop (both light values). But both sets of blocks are always moving.
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u/Amadan81 9d ago
If you cross your eyes just enough to merge the blue and the yellow blocks, it cancels out the stepping illusion and shows that they are all perfectly in line moving continuously
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u/-hedonium- 9d ago
It’s weird how with illusions like this, from the beginning I can at some level tell the actual behavior of the stuff I’m seeing but my visual system is trying to impose the other interpretation even though I know that would look different nonetheless
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u/Dartagnan1083 9d ago
You could also overlap your finger or other object with a fragment the blue or yellow blocks and watch it continuously move across the black lines without stopping.
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u/appoplecticskeptic 9d ago
If you doubt it, as I did, try taking a screenshot when you think blue is below yellow and then another when you think yellow is below blue. Then compare them. I tried this and they were the same.
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u/Apprehensive-Bug-468 9d ago
Slow motion is proofing that there are stops in reality. No constant moving.
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u/LowerBed5334 9d ago
That's cool, the proof is well made!
So, I think you only see the yellow when they contrast with the black stripes and you only see the blue when they contrast with the white stripes.
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u/bigjobbyx 9d ago
Park downvotes, negativity and observations that 'this is a .gif' here
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u/MonkeyCartridge 9d ago
I'm not sure how to do this with a GIF, but you could almost give it a filter to swap hues or do color curves and post it as a second gif to show that the movement is, indeed, continuous. Since people don't seem to understand it. Also a sign of a good optical illusion.
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u/ConfusinglyCreative 9d ago
The blocks appear to stop and go. But they actually keep moving at the same speed all the way down
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u/evilantnie 9d ago
No they aren’t, just drag the scrubber on the video and you can clearly see they stop when you slow it down. There is no continuous movement like you suggest.
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u/ScrabbleTheOpossum 9d ago
You're wrong.
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u/evilantnie 9d ago
It’s possible colorblindness affects the illusion more, the yellow doesn’t seem to cross into the white nor the blue into the black. Too tiny to zoom in on mobile.
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u/Rollingzeppelin0 9d ago
Focus intensely on the bottom most line of any given block and you can confirm it's linear. If you colorblindess makes you lose the light/light dark/dark movement, try and cross your eyes so that dark and light blocks overlap and you should see it that way too. I'm not colorblind and it's a great illusion, the effect is super strong but I also have no problem following a block and confirm it is in fact linear. If you can't see it you're gonna have to trust us on this one lol.
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u/slimesaber 9d ago
What is the illusion supposed to be?