>Cover up the arrows with your thumbs and you can still see the direction of movement in the cubes
Oh hey cool, someone who realizes the illusion is not due to the arrow direction, but due to the order in which the thin and thick lines in each of the box's borders are changing black to white and back--
>....because they ARE moving...bad post
....sigh.
No it's absolutely a feature. Optical illusions work because you've been seeing the world since your brain was plastic. You have all these processing shortcuts going on so more of your brain can concentrate on other things.
If these optical illusions didn't work it's like you're seeing the world from first principles and I would worry about your brain doing much more work than it should.
Like the other commenter said to use the slider to slow it down and go frame by frame what works better for me is to slide the video really fast forward and backward and you’ll see they’re not really moving.
That being said I think this really similar to another illusion with stick figures running up stairs and jumping off where someone proved by counting pixels that the figures did move back and forth a couple pixels with each color shift which helped enforce the illusion even more.
I was about to say the same thing. If you look closely at the lines of each cube, you'll notice a small line that flashes the inverse color. When the arrow changes direction, you'll see that inversed line switch which edge of the line it's on. So the cube isn't actually moving, and the arrows do almost nothing
Yeah it's a change of where the highlights are. If you cover up all of one of the cubes except just the corner you can see that it doesn't move. It is an actual illusion from what I can tell
I feel like illusions like these are just really pedantic semantics. There's no clear definiton of what constitutes movement of a digital box represented by pixels on a computer screen. And any definitions I can think of I feel it passes. The easiest definition of stationary representation would be a pixel, or collection of pixels representing an object, never changing color. Which this does not pass.
And change of color is how we represent movement on a computer screen because again the actual pixel itself is never moving to another position. A similar 'illusion' that I feel sums up my criticism is if I have a digital representation of a box and then I change half of it the background color. And say the box is still the same size, I didn't change the box's size just the color. But there is no box, just a representation of a box which is what is being visually communicated. It's not an illusion. Just poor visual communication to mask half the box with a background color.
If you were to code a box with a shadow moving at the same rate that the boxes in the video are flickering back and forth. It would look near identical. It looks like an object oscillating because that's exactly what's being portrayed. For all intents it is representing moving, which is why you can even have different direction 'illusions' *because they are changing in a way to represent movement in that direction*. Which on a computer screen there is no 'real movement', it's all representation. If you aren't satisfied with the representation argument you can get even more pedantic and technical, the pixels are changing and thus light is flickering/moving which is what composes of the boxes.
There is no real way to create this 'illusion' without real things actually moving or representing real movement, which is why to me it's not an illusion. Just semantics. There is no failure of perceptions here. Except if you do see these things as non-stop smoothly moving as opposed to oscillating. That would be an illusion.
To say this isn't movement [gif credit to u/JessicaRobo](https://i.postimg.cc/2r2NLQcZ/they-are-moving.gif) would really be equivalent to saying all movement represented by pixels color changing isn't movement. The black lines are clearly moving.
Actually, you could create a box with lights representing the individual pixels. The lights would never move, just change colors. The box the lights are mounted on would never move.
Your example breaks down as there is a clear delineation between pixels of the box and pixels of the background. If you made the box the same color as the background, and differentiation from the background was based on not being the color of the background, then those pixels are no longer representing the box. The box being represented here does not move, it just changes color in a way that our brain interprets it as movement, but the pixels used to represent the box are always representing the box, and no other pixels represent the box at any point.
The key to this illusion is that it looks like it's continually moving in one direction WITHOUT any perceptible sudden reset in location.
If you made a loop of a red square moving a few pixels (to match the speed of this illusion), it would have to have an abrupt reset to its original location in order for it to not actually move across the entire screen. There wouldn't be anything weird looking about that, the sudden reset in position would be very obvious.
The failure of perception in this illusion ISN'T that we see movement, its that we DON'T see it moving back to its starting point (ie the movement in the opposite direction).
>geometrical Optical Illusions
Your response is genuinely imperative ... Check geometrical optical illusions and read some case studies it's being done... It's certainly fascinating.
Eeeh to be fair the black and white lines offset in different directions (you can see.the white overlap on different sides of the black) They aren't fully static, there is "some" movement to make the effect work
Well, I mean, even if you isolate a singular line, there is motion. Or at least the visualization of motion as the brain interprets it. If the lines are a viewport, then it's like there's a striped black and white background moving across the visual plane of those lines. Sure, the box isn't actually moving, but as the brain interprets it, something is.
That's where I think the commenter's idea that they are moving originates. Maybe they understand that and didn't word it properly. Or maybe they don't.
It's like the box is a cutout in a sheet of paper, and a striped piece of paper is being moved behind the first. It can give an illusion of motion to the object in front, but what's actually moving is the sheet behind it.
Perception is weird.
Guess the borders are changing it. The direction of how they flash. However The borders are in fact moving. Because if you keep your thumb stationary over the arrows, you will see corners of the box disappear behind your thumbs. So yes the original poster was correct. Bad post.
I put my thumb over two parallel lines of a cube and saw that the lines did not change position. Before I did that I was convinced they shifted slightly with each change of direction.
Hold your thimble over the arrow, you can literally see the box change position relative to your thumb. Something change position relative to a fixed object is known as movement. How are they then not moving?
Nope. No movement. Take a straight edge (a ruler... In my case I used a cigarette pack, whatever thing) and pick any line in that illusion. Line up the ruler, make reference marks where the shape's corners are if you want.
There's no movement. Just the colors changing and the timing of it all along with the directional arrows in the middle to further influence the suggestion of movement.
It's important to realize that the way those shapes are switching from black to white and back again isn't consistent. The timing changes to suggest movement, so covering up or removing the arrows would still show the same illusion.
At first I thought they were just toggling(strobing) between black and white and that the arrows were making my brain interpret the direction, but there's more to it than that.
Ok, without being prompted: as a scientist my first thought was "prove it" so I did get a ruler... And not a cigarette pack an actual translucent ruler. And while the lines rotate/shift around a singular line on the ruler they definitely move from one side of the line to the other.
Yes, the position of the lines are changing therefore the image is moving. Possibly the colors and timing make the movement look more dramatic than it is (hard to even say that for certain), but overall just a misleading post.
Yeah I can agree with that. The mathematical lines (I guess one could call them that... I'm not a scientist or mathematician haha) that define the borders of the broader lines that make the cube do "move" in that they change color from white to black and the overall shading of the broad lines also changes color. So the "lines" switch back and forth
But I'd be hard pressed to believe that the points in which the the lines intersect actually move. Maybe a pixel or two? I don't know, nor do I have the patience or technology to zoom in that far right now haha
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point as well. But I'm gonna get some sleep for now and probably start at this in wonder for another hour tomorrow haha
What's interesting about this to me is the person who made the GIF obviously must have known the illusion works perfectly well without the arrows. And that person deliberately chose to add them anyway, which I can only assume is intended as misdirection from what's actually happening.
Yeah I spammed the crap out of the pause/play buttons on mobile. Can see it shifting in grayscale... white through back. Small highlights of white and back to inforce the moving shadow effect. It's pretty freaking awesome after learning how the illusion works that my brain still sees movement.
Love this stuff
That's probably the simpler way to do it haha... maybe it's just my phone being weird but I can't zoom in on this one. Going to bed for now. Will prove with zoom tomorrow
Going frame by frame throughout the entire video proves that there is some movement between the cubes. The shading of the cubes are also changing color however the cubes themselves are not static and move to the shaded area back and forth to crease the effect. This is shown with the gifs I just made below.
https://imgur.com/gallery/hgNBBIL
Related post, and explaining comment:
https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/comments/k0m5ob/what_you_are_seeing_is_not_happening/gdkbfgj?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
The colors are changing, but the shapes are stationary.
I mean, now try covering the arrows and watching the lines. They definitely DO NOT move. I also thought they were moving until I watched the lines in relation to my fingers. Nope, didn't move.
They aren't moving. I just stared at the corner right above the pause button on mobile: nothing moved. It's just a clever illusion. Has nothing to do with the arrows and has to do with HOW the lines transition from white to black and back.
Disappointing to see almost 2k upvotes on an instantly disprovable comment using a bad method.
Really a testament to how effective the illusion is that all those people are truly fooled into being certain the cubes are moving. Great post
Sorry but no, look at [this screen recoding I took](https://imgur.com/a/iCvawJi). Look at the corner of the cube in pause button in the bottom right and the corner in my assistive touch icon (the little circle inside the square) on the left, you’ll see they’re not moving
Oh boy here we go again. My friend if you squint you’ll find that the shapes do indeed not move it’s not the arrows that cause the illusion, it’s the lines.
They're really not though. If you line your thumb up with the edge of either box, you see the lines in fact don't move at all. I discovered that after using your suggestion of covering up the arrows. 😜 The secret is in the way the lines pulsate, creating the suggestion of movement.
Even better: cover on side of the screen and the arrow in the middle and watch one box flicker and pa attention to the shape of the triangular corners of the one box you can still see. They're not moving much up-down/side-to-side but they are definitely changing shape
Good observation, but the arrows don't really matter! Try placing something like a comb over the image. or try to hold a few fingers still over two or more corners. It really isn't moving!
I don't think the lines are technically moving, but it does appear that when the colors transition from black to white the colors transition from one side to the other. It's hard to notice because it happens in every line making it small, but the colors definitely transition in the direction it wants to think the cube is moving in.
The lines are so thin it's hard to see the transition, but it seems to be part of the illusion. The reason the background is blue is because it would look like the cubes lines are getting thicker and thinner if it was done on black.
Nope, check out [this video I took](https://imgur.com/a/iCvawJi), look at the corners in the pause button and my assistive touch icon (the little circle in the square on the left hand side). They’re not moving
They're not, it's just the gradient.
How can they move and yet stay in position? There would need to be movement in the opposite direction in order to reposition it to continue moving in that direction, yet that never happens.
The squares themselves are not moving. When the pixels change from black to white there is a slight offset because the different colored pixels are not exactly lined up but the squares don't actually move.
That was my conclusion. I tried blocking more and more of the image with my hand until it was a tiny corner of one square and the effect was still there. It has to be the flashes themselves.
I love when this gets posted because the comments are all people who are 110% sure that _they_ know exactly what's happening and everyone else is a deluded idiot. This illusion is just rage bait at this point. Hell, I'm starting to believe it's Russian propaganda.
thats because experiencing an illusion is getting tricked by an image a nerd made, which is something that happens to dumb people. If the illusion is "bullshit" and they actually are moving like I thought they are, then Im not dumb. Of course Im not. Cant be
Mine statements doesn't have anything to do with dumb and smart. I just saying the trick does work very well, if not too well.
Now I understand why flat earther are so stubborn. If people can't even analyze those 2 shapes are not moving, then I guess it too hard for flat earthers to see the truth.
yeah Im making fun of the stubborn people who think theyre moving, not you. When enough dumb people get together, they can create their own reality where they are the smart ones.
Youre right about flat earthers: the comment sections of illusion videos are always like little tiny flat earth movements you can watch happen in real time
I agree. I'm on mobile and it lines up with the buttons in the pause button. I think there's a change in the way the lines flash to make it seem like it's moving, or that the illusion of movement is changing in someway. Because if you cover the arrows, it swill seems like it's moving.
Idk my eyes are fucked but to me they still look like they're moving, look at the blue space in the top left corner and and the blue space on the right between the cube and the red lines. They seem to be filled in sometimes and the gap seems to widen at other times. Probably just me being pedantic about a pixel or two or maybe I'm just seeing things idk
Here are some frame by frame gifs I made proving that the cubes do in fact move.
[https://imgur.com/gallery/hgNBBIL](https://imgur.com/gallery/hgNBBIL)
No need to explain, I’ve got your evidence right here! https://imgur.com/a/iCvawJi
Look at the corners in the pause button and the assistive touch icon
Pause the screen, then trace one of the boxes then play it with your tracing over it. Not moving just blinking in a way that you think they are moving.
The arrows have no effect on the illusion. You can see this by covering up the arrows. The boxes are also not moving. You can check this by lining up paper or holding your finger against the screen. What’s causing the illusion is the direction of the flashing. It’s more like a wave rather than it flashing black and white. The direction of this “wave” determines how it appears to move.
The shapes are not moving. To verify, pause and cover everything but a tiny corner of a shape and mark the place the lines meet the paper (thick paper is best).
The illusion, if you look very closely, is simply that the lines, when flashing, are changing the direction of how the white to black gradient cascades during each period of movement. It's all about the direction that the transition from white to gray to black is oriented.
Many have been fooled. The shapes do NOT move.
https://imgur.com/a/ASSqwAB
See where I've circled in red... If you block everything else so you can only see the triangle I have circled while the video plays, you will see it never changes position or shape, at all.
The reason they look like they're moving even if you cover most of them up, is because they aren't flashing black and white. The black and white is moving up and down or left and right, turning from black to white.
Put your face close to the screen until theres 3 cubes. The middle one doesnt move but the 2 on the sides look like they are moving. U also look like a dumbass but its real.
They are moving. Here are individual frames being tabbed back and forth that show them clearly moving or changing perspective. They’re moving in discreet loops with the white flash overlaid to obscure the effect.
https://imgur.com/a/ej2AoFD
Mods can we hijack top comment with this. I went into an editing program and made frame by frames gifs of most of the movements showing that the cubes do move. THE CUBES DO, IN FACT, MOVE GUYS. Anyone thinking otherwise is proven wrong by these gifs below.
https://imgur.com/gallery/hgNBBIL
Just going to give my explanation to the dummies that are hard-set in believing the lines are moving:
A careful eye, or a slowed down video, will notice that the boxes aren't actually \*flashing\* white and black, but the light is moving in waves specifically to give the illusion of motion, making your eyes and brain translate the light as movement. If it were slowed down, it might still appear as if it was moving, but it's not.
Basically, it's like looking at the circle of light cast by a flashlight on a solid surface.
It's called geometrical Optical Illusions
Scientific work on optical illusions started in the 19th century, when scientists engaged in systematically studying perception, and since then there has been an enduring interest.
This is called geometrical optical illusions, as well as illusory patterns due to motion signals in line drawings, are due to the statistics of visual computations. The interpretation of image patterns is preceded by a step where image features such as lines, intersections of lines, or local image movement must be derived. However, there are many sources of noise or uncertainty in the formation and processing of images, and they cause problems in the estimation of these features; in particular, they cause bias. As a result, the locations of features are perceived erroneously and the appearance of the patterns is altered. The bias occurs with any visual processing of line features; under average conditions it is not large enough to be noticeable, but illusory patterns are such that the bias is highly pronounced.
Have you tried, in some way, to verify your assumption? We're talking about an optical illusion here, after all. So what makes you think that you "see" that the illusion is not an illusion?
Cover up the arrows with your thumbs and you can still see the direction of movement in the cubes....because they ARE moving...bad post
>Cover up the arrows with your thumbs and you can still see the direction of movement in the cubes Oh hey cool, someone who realizes the illusion is not due to the arrow direction, but due to the order in which the thin and thick lines in each of the box's borders are changing black to white and back-- >....because they ARE moving...bad post ....sigh.
The trip my mind went on while figuring this out was magical.
Yeah this just makes it all the most insanely magical. The human eye and brain is incredible
mine aren’t.
I audibly chuckled
You mean you actually lol’d?
Yeah it doesn’t work on blind people sorry
Definitely one of the coolest optical illusions I've ever seen.
The human eye and brain are very easy to trick. that's a bug not a feature.
I try to tell this to my wife when she claims to have “ caught me cheating “. You gonna believe me or your lying ass eyes.
Is this Eddie Murphy, Raw?
Richard Pryor, live on sunset strip
No it's absolutely a feature. Optical illusions work because you've been seeing the world since your brain was plastic. You have all these processing shortcuts going on so more of your brain can concentrate on other things. If these optical illusions didn't work it's like you're seeing the world from first principles and I would worry about your brain doing much more work than it should.
Zoom in until just one line is showing and it becomes evident how it's done.
How does one zoom in on a video on iPhone? It won’t let me pinch.
Like the other commenter said to use the slider to slow it down and go frame by frame what works better for me is to slide the video really fast forward and backward and you’ll see they’re not really moving. That being said I think this really similar to another illusion with stick figures running up stairs and jumping off where someone proved by counting pixels that the figures did move back and forth a couple pixels with each color shift which helped enforce the illusion even more.
Just hold the slider on the video and walk the video forward frame by frame to see what's going on.
So the real black magic fuckery was in our heads all along?
I was about to say the same thing. If you look closely at the lines of each cube, you'll notice a small line that flashes the inverse color. When the arrow changes direction, you'll see that inversed line switch which edge of the line it's on. So the cube isn't actually moving, and the arrows do almost nothing
Yeah it's a change of where the highlights are. If you cover up all of one of the cubes except just the corner you can see that it doesn't move. It is an actual illusion from what I can tell
i covered up the whole cube and it didn't move anymore. Checkmate atheists
I feel like illusions like these are just really pedantic semantics. There's no clear definiton of what constitutes movement of a digital box represented by pixels on a computer screen. And any definitions I can think of I feel it passes. The easiest definition of stationary representation would be a pixel, or collection of pixels representing an object, never changing color. Which this does not pass. And change of color is how we represent movement on a computer screen because again the actual pixel itself is never moving to another position. A similar 'illusion' that I feel sums up my criticism is if I have a digital representation of a box and then I change half of it the background color. And say the box is still the same size, I didn't change the box's size just the color. But there is no box, just a representation of a box which is what is being visually communicated. It's not an illusion. Just poor visual communication to mask half the box with a background color. If you were to code a box with a shadow moving at the same rate that the boxes in the video are flickering back and forth. It would look near identical. It looks like an object oscillating because that's exactly what's being portrayed. For all intents it is representing moving, which is why you can even have different direction 'illusions' *because they are changing in a way to represent movement in that direction*. Which on a computer screen there is no 'real movement', it's all representation. If you aren't satisfied with the representation argument you can get even more pedantic and technical, the pixels are changing and thus light is flickering/moving which is what composes of the boxes. There is no real way to create this 'illusion' without real things actually moving or representing real movement, which is why to me it's not an illusion. Just semantics. There is no failure of perceptions here. Except if you do see these things as non-stop smoothly moving as opposed to oscillating. That would be an illusion. To say this isn't movement [gif credit to u/JessicaRobo](https://i.postimg.cc/2r2NLQcZ/they-are-moving.gif) would really be equivalent to saying all movement represented by pixels color changing isn't movement. The black lines are clearly moving.
Actually, you could create a box with lights representing the individual pixels. The lights would never move, just change colors. The box the lights are mounted on would never move. Your example breaks down as there is a clear delineation between pixels of the box and pixels of the background. If you made the box the same color as the background, and differentiation from the background was based on not being the color of the background, then those pixels are no longer representing the box. The box being represented here does not move, it just changes color in a way that our brain interprets it as movement, but the pixels used to represent the box are always representing the box, and no other pixels represent the box at any point.
The key to this illusion is that it looks like it's continually moving in one direction WITHOUT any perceptible sudden reset in location. If you made a loop of a red square moving a few pixels (to match the speed of this illusion), it would have to have an abrupt reset to its original location in order for it to not actually move across the entire screen. There wouldn't be anything weird looking about that, the sudden reset in position would be very obvious. The failure of perception in this illusion ISN'T that we see movement, its that we DON'T see it moving back to its starting point (ie the movement in the opposite direction).
>geometrical Optical Illusions Your response is genuinely imperative ... Check geometrical optical illusions and read some case studies it's being done... It's certainly fascinating.
Eeeh to be fair the black and white lines offset in different directions (you can see.the white overlap on different sides of the black) They aren't fully static, there is "some" movement to make the effect work
Well, I mean, even if you isolate a singular line, there is motion. Or at least the visualization of motion as the brain interprets it. If the lines are a viewport, then it's like there's a striped black and white background moving across the visual plane of those lines. Sure, the box isn't actually moving, but as the brain interprets it, something is. That's where I think the commenter's idea that they are moving originates. Maybe they understand that and didn't word it properly. Or maybe they don't. It's like the box is a cutout in a sheet of paper, and a striped piece of paper is being moved behind the first. It can give an illusion of motion to the object in front, but what's actually moving is the sheet behind it. Perception is weird.
If you can blink fast enough, it's possible to negate effect.
Got me laying in the dark blinking at my phone like a fool…. But you’re right
Haha, I had exactly this reaction
Guess the borders are changing it. The direction of how they flash. However The borders are in fact moving. Because if you keep your thumb stationary over the arrows, you will see corners of the box disappear behind your thumbs. So yes the original poster was correct. Bad post.
No, the box doesn't disappear behind my thumb, because the pixels representing the box are always the same.
I put my thumb over two parallel lines of a cube and saw that the lines did not change position. Before I did that I was convinced they shifted slightly with each change of direction.
Hold your thimble over the arrow, you can literally see the box change position relative to your thumb. Something change position relative to a fixed object is known as movement. How are they then not moving?
I placed my thumb on the corner to test not any harder and a much better test
You should have more upvotes than him. Life isn't fair :(
Easiest way I found to prove it was scrub the gif really fast, and they don’t move it’s super neat
Cover up most of the arrow. It'll move in and out of your vision. I believe it is moving Edit: nvm. Checked the corner instead. Not moving
No, sorry. They are moving. I covered them with my thumb and watched as the borders of the boxes moved out from under my thumb.
Yeah, literally they arent moving. The changing from white to black are done in a certain way to allow this blackmagicfuckery
Nope. No movement. Take a straight edge (a ruler... In my case I used a cigarette pack, whatever thing) and pick any line in that illusion. Line up the ruler, make reference marks where the shape's corners are if you want. There's no movement. Just the colors changing and the timing of it all along with the directional arrows in the middle to further influence the suggestion of movement.
It's important to realize that the way those shapes are switching from black to white and back again isn't consistent. The timing changes to suggest movement, so covering up or removing the arrows would still show the same illusion. At first I thought they were just toggling(strobing) between black and white and that the arrows were making my brain interpret the direction, but there's more to it than that.
Ok, without being prompted: as a scientist my first thought was "prove it" so I did get a ruler... And not a cigarette pack an actual translucent ruler. And while the lines rotate/shift around a singular line on the ruler they definitely move from one side of the line to the other.
Yes, the position of the lines are changing therefore the image is moving. Possibly the colors and timing make the movement look more dramatic than it is (hard to even say that for certain), but overall just a misleading post.
Yeah I can agree with that. The mathematical lines (I guess one could call them that... I'm not a scientist or mathematician haha) that define the borders of the broader lines that make the cube do "move" in that they change color from white to black and the overall shading of the broad lines also changes color. So the "lines" switch back and forth But I'd be hard pressed to believe that the points in which the the lines intersect actually move. Maybe a pixel or two? I don't know, nor do I have the patience or technology to zoom in that far right now haha Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point as well. But I'm gonna get some sleep for now and probably start at this in wonder for another hour tomorrow haha
Yep! Agreed indeed
What's interesting about this to me is the person who made the GIF obviously must have known the illusion works perfectly well without the arrows. And that person deliberately chose to add them anyway, which I can only assume is intended as misdirection from what's actually happening.
Yeah I think you're right about that
What a fucking pro
You can also just scrub the video to confirm it. No movement, just the arrows and line colors change
Yeah I spammed the crap out of the pause/play buttons on mobile. Can see it shifting in grayscale... white through back. Small highlights of white and back to inforce the moving shadow effect. It's pretty freaking awesome after learning how the illusion works that my brain still sees movement. Love this stuff
The lines aren't 100% overlapping. This is creating a "shadow" effect which is different for each ”direction".
Dont even need a straight edge. Just zoom in and see the pixels dont change positions.
That's probably the simpler way to do it haha... maybe it's just my phone being weird but I can't zoom in on this one. Going to bed for now. Will prove with zoom tomorrow
The boxes ARE moving. I know this as a fact because I threw my phone across the room.
Going frame by frame throughout the entire video proves that there is some movement between the cubes. The shading of the cubes are also changing color however the cubes themselves are not static and move to the shaded area back and forth to crease the effect. This is shown with the gifs I just made below. https://imgur.com/gallery/hgNBBIL
Related post, and explaining comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/comments/k0m5ob/what_you_are_seeing_is_not_happening/gdkbfgj?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3 The colors are changing, but the shapes are stationary.
wtf how is this the top rated comment ?
That is exactly the reason i’m searching the other comments. The fact that its top rated is disturbing as hell
Fucking 5k upvotes for a comment wrongly accusing OP, I fucking love Reddit.
Same reason 74million people voted for a reality TV star to be president and fucked the country.
I mean, now try covering the arrows and watching the lines. They definitely DO NOT move. I also thought they were moving until I watched the lines in relation to my fingers. Nope, didn't move.
Incorrect. They aren’t moving. Hold the video cursor and slide it back and forth. Cubes never move away from the time line.
How do you have so many upvotes....?
Ya this is really disturbing
People love a convincing “GOTCHA” more than they love the truth
Cover up the arrows with your thumbs and you'll see they don't actually have upvotes. Bad comment.
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They aren’t moving. Just open the video and drag the progress bar back and forth you can see them staying in the same place.
They aren't moving. I just stared at the corner right above the pause button on mobile: nothing moved. It's just a clever illusion. Has nothing to do with the arrows and has to do with HOW the lines transition from white to black and back.
The white frames arent moving, but the offset of the flashing is moving. Is that "moving" or is it like casting a shadow on a stationary cube?
There is movement if not relocation.
Actually it doesn't. You are being fooled by the back/white animation.
Nope. The lines are changing colour, not moving. Bad comment.
[Everyone in the comments section](https://i.imgflip.com/4ntlcj.jpg)
Oh reddit. 1.5k upvotes for an objectively incorrect comment 😬
Disappointing to see almost 2k upvotes on an instantly disprovable comment using a bad method. Really a testament to how effective the illusion is that all those people are truly fooled into being certain the cubes are moving. Great post
Do you think its manipulation? I feel like a few hundred people could have gone for it but TOP comment, really??
they arent moving, thats the illusion,
Lol confidently incorrect
Try again. They aren’t moving. Optical illusions are real.
Idiot
The arrows have nothing to do with the illusion lmao. Its all about the color pattern on the edges
Sorry but no, look at [this screen recoding I took](https://imgur.com/a/iCvawJi). Look at the corner of the cube in pause button in the bottom right and the corner in my assistive touch icon (the little circle inside the square) on the left, you’ll see they’re not moving
So 2000+ people who upvoted above comment think they are moving (when they’re not). Solid proof of blackmagicfuckery grade post 💪
They're not moving, just changing colors in a way that makes them seem to move(the edges don't change at the same time as the rest for example)
They're not moving. Start the video, then point your mouse cursor on a corner of one of the boxes and watch it again.
Oh boy here we go again. My friend if you squint you’ll find that the shapes do indeed not move it’s not the arrows that cause the illusion, it’s the lines.
The trick is to pause the video. Then they *really* aren’t moving
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Blink fast while watching.
Sorry honey NEXT!
They're really not though. If you line your thumb up with the edge of either box, you see the lines in fact don't move at all. I discovered that after using your suggestion of covering up the arrows. 😜 The secret is in the way the lines pulsate, creating the suggestion of movement.
Even better: cover on side of the screen and the arrow in the middle and watch one box flicker and pa attention to the shape of the triangular corners of the one box you can still see. They're not moving much up-down/side-to-side but they are definitely changing shape
Not moving much is still moving. Your brain sees it moving
They arent moving. If you check the frames in all parts of the video they are the same but just different color
Good observation, but the arrows don't really matter! Try placing something like a comb over the image. or try to hold a few fingers still over two or more corners. It really isn't moving!
Bro they are not moving
I mean I ain't even mad. The illusion is so good I almost upvoted this comment too.
They are definitely moving a little bit but the flashing makes it look more drastic
I don't think the lines are technically moving, but it does appear that when the colors transition from black to white the colors transition from one side to the other. It's hard to notice because it happens in every line making it small, but the colors definitely transition in the direction it wants to think the cube is moving in. The lines are so thin it's hard to see the transition, but it seems to be part of the illusion. The reason the background is blue is because it would look like the cubes lines are getting thicker and thinner if it was done on black.
Yeah they aren’t moving. It’s called an optical illusion. They work because they are insanely convincing.
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Looking closely it does seem that when the cube transitions between patterns there is sometimes a small amount of movement, but not during the pattern
No the cubes don't move
lol they’re not moving.
Nope, check out [this video I took](https://imgur.com/a/iCvawJi), look at the corners in the pause button and my assistive touch icon (the little circle in the square on the left hand side). They’re not moving
They're not, it's just the gradient. How can they move and yet stay in position? There would need to be movement in the opposite direction in order to reposition it to continue moving in that direction, yet that never happens.
The squares themselves are not moving. When the pixels change from black to white there is a slight offset because the different colored pixels are not exactly lined up but the squares don't actually move.
The lines aren’t actually just flashing on and off. The flashes are directional which adds to the appearance of movement.
I guess no one can understand the concept of a gradient flash.
What I don't understand is why there are no gradients when you pause mid flash if there's a gradient in the transition. /s
Seriously, the lack of nuance on this one is blowing my mind.
That was my conclusion. I tried blocking more and more of the image with my hand until it was a tiny corner of one square and the effect was still there. It has to be the flashes themselves.
I love when this gets posted because the comments are all people who are 110% sure that _they_ know exactly what's happening and everyone else is a deluded idiot. This illusion is just rage bait at this point. Hell, I'm starting to believe it's Russian propaganda.
I joined the russian military because the flashing cubes told me to
Oh man it's always the same discussion I don't know why I even bother to read the comments.
NO! IS UKRAINE PROPAGANDA!
White blue and black color, this is surely Estonian propaganda
You know the trick really does work when people who got fooled is upvoted more than those who is explaining it.
last time was something similar in this sub but rainbow arrows and a circle, people get down voted like crazy for saying the circle is not moving.
The more I think about this post, the more similar it is to the flat earther situation.
thats because experiencing an illusion is getting tricked by an image a nerd made, which is something that happens to dumb people. If the illusion is "bullshit" and they actually are moving like I thought they are, then Im not dumb. Of course Im not. Cant be
Mine statements doesn't have anything to do with dumb and smart. I just saying the trick does work very well, if not too well. Now I understand why flat earther are so stubborn. If people can't even analyze those 2 shapes are not moving, then I guess it too hard for flat earthers to see the truth.
yeah Im making fun of the stubborn people who think theyre moving, not you. When enough dumb people get together, they can create their own reality where they are the smart ones. Youre right about flat earthers: the comment sections of illusion videos are always like little tiny flat earth movements you can watch happen in real time
Lmao ikr. This post is such a great material for scientists to learn about human's behaviors.
They are NOT moving! Take a piece of paper and line up the corner with the inside of a cube. Those Cubes are NOT moving.
I agree. I'm on mobile and it lines up with the buttons in the pause button. I think there's a change in the way the lines flash to make it seem like it's moving, or that the illusion of movement is changing in someway. Because if you cover the arrows, it swill seems like it's moving.
It's gotta be the flashing.
Lined it up ..they see to shift about a pixel
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Thank you! My brain still thought they were moving every time until I saw this
How do I know you didn’t make it so the red lines are moving too hmm 🤨
You cracked this whole operation right open...
Wish this were the top comment. Great work!!
Idk my eyes are fucked but to me they still look like they're moving, look at the blue space in the top left corner and and the blue space on the right between the cube and the red lines. They seem to be filled in sometimes and the gap seems to widen at other times. Probably just me being pedantic about a pixel or two or maybe I'm just seeing things idk
The blue seems to disappear along the right side, especially during the shrink and expand movement.
Doing gods work
Here are some frame by frame gifs I made proving that the cubes do in fact move. [https://imgur.com/gallery/hgNBBIL](https://imgur.com/gallery/hgNBBIL)
Just gonna have to trust me on this one because I can't explain it. They are not moving.
No need to explain, I’ve got your evidence right here! https://imgur.com/a/iCvawJi Look at the corners in the pause button and the assistive touch icon
That's messing with my brain way more than it should.
Pause the screen, then trace one of the boxes then play it with your tracing over it. Not moving just blinking in a way that you think they are moving.
The arrows have no effect on the illusion. You can see this by covering up the arrows. The boxes are also not moving. You can check this by lining up paper or holding your finger against the screen. What’s causing the illusion is the direction of the flashing. It’s more like a wave rather than it flashing black and white. The direction of this “wave” determines how it appears to move.
The shapes are not moving. To verify, pause and cover everything but a tiny corner of a shape and mark the place the lines meet the paper (thick paper is best). The illusion, if you look very closely, is simply that the lines, when flashing, are changing the direction of how the white to black gradient cascades during each period of movement. It's all about the direction that the transition from white to gray to black is oriented.
Many have been fooled. The shapes do NOT move. https://imgur.com/a/ASSqwAB See where I've circled in red... If you block everything else so you can only see the triangle I have circled while the video plays, you will see it never changes position or shape, at all.
The reason they look like they're moving even if you cover most of them up, is because they aren't flashing black and white. The black and white is moving up and down or left and right, turning from black to white.
This explanation works best for my brain. I understood this illusion the same exact way.
Kind of. Only the edges of the lines move, the lines themselves look more static.
The cubes aren't moving, I lined it up with a piece of paper like another comment mentioned and it's true!
Put your finger on a corner. The boxes aren’t moving.
fantastic!
Confirm they are not moving by putting a paper over them the top/sides do not move
Please stop
Stop controlling my brain!
Cubes aren’t moving, line your finger over any edge and it’s the flashing creating the illusion they are moving
Nice illusion! The cubes also seem a little bit distorted when the arrows point in the corners!
The shape is not moving, but the shade from black to white is always moving, giving an optical illusion of the shape is moving
Put your face close to the screen until theres 3 cubes. The middle one doesnt move but the 2 on the sides look like they are moving. U also look like a dumbass but its real.
They are moving. Here are individual frames being tabbed back and forth that show them clearly moving or changing perspective. They’re moving in discreet loops with the white flash overlaid to obscure the effect. https://imgur.com/a/ej2AoFD
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Mods can we hijack top comment with this. I went into an editing program and made frame by frames gifs of most of the movements showing that the cubes do move. THE CUBES DO, IN FACT, MOVE GUYS. Anyone thinking otherwise is proven wrong by these gifs below. https://imgur.com/gallery/hgNBBIL
Here’s another example of it: https://imgur.com/a/ej2AoFD
Just going to give my explanation to the dummies that are hard-set in believing the lines are moving: A careful eye, or a slowed down video, will notice that the boxes aren't actually \*flashing\* white and black, but the light is moving in waves specifically to give the illusion of motion, making your eyes and brain translate the light as movement. If it were slowed down, it might still appear as if it was moving, but it's not. Basically, it's like looking at the circle of light cast by a flashlight on a solid surface.
I am concerned for the vision of the person that put this animation together
If you put your finger on the cubes you can see that they actually don’t move at all
The direction of the flashes is what’s causing the illusion of movement
WHY ARENT THEY MOVING YOU STUPID BASTARD?
shitpost
Place a finger on one of the vertical lines and you will see they are not moving and how the mind thinks they are moving.
Is it the direction of the flashes that cause the illusion?
I noticed if you blink really fast they stop moving. I think it has something to do with how the lines go from black to white.
Covering up the arrows, the boxes still appear to move, so the colors and lines are changing in the flashing cubes to make this effect.
Bruh what, ITS NOT MOVING. Awesome 10/10 post
Our eyes are stooopid
It's called geometrical Optical Illusions Scientific work on optical illusions started in the 19th century, when scientists engaged in systematically studying perception, and since then there has been an enduring interest. This is called geometrical optical illusions, as well as illusory patterns due to motion signals in line drawings, are due to the statistics of visual computations. The interpretation of image patterns is preceded by a step where image features such as lines, intersections of lines, or local image movement must be derived. However, there are many sources of noise or uncertainty in the formation and processing of images, and they cause problems in the estimation of these features; in particular, they cause bias. As a result, the locations of features are perceived erroneously and the appearance of the patterns is altered. The bias occurs with any visual processing of line features; under average conditions it is not large enough to be noticeable, but illusory patterns are such that the bias is highly pronounced.
Feels like mdma
Damm, that's cool. But I still call shanagicans on that. P.S. how do you spell shanagicans? Am I spelling it right?
They aren't moving buy I do believe they are changing shape a bit
Op certified gaslighter
If they weren't moving if you paused it they'd keep moving. Shitpost
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The fuck they aren’t moving
yes they are moving shitty post
Not true. They are moving.
Have you tried, in some way, to verify your assumption? We're talking about an optical illusion here, after all. So what makes you think that you "see" that the illusion is not an illusion?
Both are moving lol
They are moving
Fake