Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Please Don't Remind me of my Troubles!

Today I am definitely not in the mood for anything serious like religion or theologizing. Playful is the thing for today! So here is my favorite optical illusion. I'm sure somebody can make some theological point using this to illustrate it, but that somebody will not be I!

Does it move for you? That's the illusion! It isn't really moving at all.

(You have to put your contacts in! And it won't move if you view it from across the room, so try different distances if you don't see the wheels rotating.)

UPDATE: The movement can be seen much better in large scale. If you click on the image, you will see a substantial enlargement.

6 comments:

William Weedon said...

Waaa. It won't move for me. :(

Anastasia Theodoridis said...

Try staring at just one corner of it, because whichever part of it you look at directly won't move, only the parts you see out of the corner of your eye.

Fr. Gregory Hogg said...

It was very moving...

Anastasia Theodoridis said...

Both of you provoke *such* temptation, leaving yourselves open to so many wisecracks...!

William, try clicking on the image to see an enlarged version. That version works better.

Dixie said...

Freaky!

William Weedon said...

Anastasia,

I'm disabled or something. I can't get it to go. Oh, well. It's a great design in any case.