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  2. Spinning dancer - Wikipedia

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    Spinning dancer. 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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Spinning Dancer

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    It is extremely important that it doesn't work for everyone, that reduces its encyclopedic value down to zero when we are talking about the concept of an optical illusion. The title is the spinning dancer, yet doesn't show an accurate spinning dancer, since that movement isn't possible in life so even the name is misleading.

  5. Zoetrope - Wikipedia

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    A zoetrope is a pre-film animation device that produces the illusion of motion, by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion. A zoetrope is a cylindrical variant of the phénakisticope, an apparatus suggested after the stroboscopic discs were introduced in 1833.

  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. 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.

  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. Tim Rowett - Wikipedia

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    Tim Rowett. Timothy Quiller Rowett (born 12 July 1942) [2][3] is a British YouTube personality and renowned toy collector, known for presenting videos about toys, optical illusions, novelties and puzzles on the YouTube channel Grand Illusions. Rowett, known affectionately as " Tim the Toyman ", [4] is a former children's entertainer, and claims ...