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  2. Spinning dancer - Wikipedia

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    The Spinning Dancer, also known as the Silhouette Illusion, is a kinetic, bistable, animated optical illusion originally distributed as a GIF animation showing a silhouette of a pirouetting female dancer. The illusion, created in 2003 by Japanese web designer Nobuyuki Kayahara, [1][2] involves the apparent direction of motion of the figure.

  3. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Spinning Dancer

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    Original - The Spinning Dancer, is a very bizarre dancer optical illusion. It appears to spin both clockwise and anti-clockwise, depending on how the viewer sees it. It is falsely labeled Right Brain v Left Brain test. Reason

  4. Kinetic depth effect - Wikipedia

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    Kinetic depth effect. The Spinning Dancer is a kinetic, bistable optical illusion resembling a pirouetting female dancer. The dancer can be seen to be spinning alternately one direction, or the other. In visual perception, the kinetic depth effect refers to the phenomenon whereby the three-dimensional structural form of an object can be ...

  5. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    The Hollow-Face illusion is an optical illusion in which the perception of a concave mask of a face appears as a normal convex face. Hybrid image. A Hybrid image is an optical illusion developed at MIT in which an image can be interpreted in one of two different ways depending on viewing distance. Illusory contours.

  6. Optical illusion - Wikipedia

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    Optical illusion is also used in film by the technique of forced perspective. Op art is a style of art that uses optical illusions to create an impression of movement, or hidden images and patterns. Trompe-l'œil uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that depicted objects exist in three dimensions.

  7. Zoetrope - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, an inside-out variation of the zoetrope was invented and patented with the name Silhouette Zoetrope. [53] The device was invented by the researcher Dr. Christine Veras, and it won third place in the Best Illusion of the Year Contest, paying homage to the classical zoetrope but displaying a unique combination of optical illusions. [54]

  8. File:Spinning Dancer Optical Illusion (2040 frames).ogv

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    English: This is a conversion & extension the "Spinning Dancer.gif file" with 34 frames & 1 second of play time to the OVG format with 2040 frames and 60 seconds of play time. The intent is to allow the user to start and stop the display without the distraction of continual play. Some observers initially see the figure as spinning clockwise ...

  9. Geometrical-optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    The widely accepted interpretation of, e.g. the Poggendorff and Hering illusions as manifestation of expansion of acute angles at line intersections, is an example of successful implementation of a "bottom-up," physiological explanation of a geometrical–optical illusion. Ponzo illusion in a purely schematic form and, below, with perspective clues