What is Digg?104 Comments
- jd33, on 02/20/2008, -3/+46Great, I just asked my colleague to take a look at this donut hole and now I'm fired. Thanks Digg.
- mediaspree, on 02/20/2008, -2/+39Aw man, I don't have any friends to help me proove its real!
- DrummerAndrew, on 02/20/2008, -3/+32That's pretty interesting. I love how much our eyes screw with what we 'think' we see. Optical illusions prove how gullable our human brain really is. Don't always believe what you see. (Or read.)
- MrTito, on 02/20/2008, -1/+24I have my doubts about what you say, sir.
- bzaks, on 02/20/2008, -5/+27You know honestly, it make sense that we see it as "oscillation" when its really not. It's just the contrast with the backgrounds. So really, it's not an optical illusion, its our eyes telling us the truth.
- jebidiah123, on 02/20/2008, -7/+26I think my brain just pooped.
- HyperJack, on 02/20/2008, -0/+15Instant friend !
- rompom7, on 02/20/2008, -0/+15It doesn't look like the black/white is alternating, just that each donut is taking turns to be filled in.
- slimjim5811, on 02/20/2008, -0/+15Looks like a train is coming.
*Ding-Ding, Ding-Ding* - lnxfi, on 02/20/2008, -0/+12not as much as your avatar
- TheSabre, on 02/20/2008, -1/+13Great, I just asked my mom to take a look at this donut hole and now I'm grounded. Thanks Digg.
There, fixed it for you. - wordmunger, on 02/20/2008, -0/+12You can also take a piece of paper and punch two holes in it and hold it up to the screen.
- EmitStop, on 02/20/2008, -0/+9Mmmm, Donuts...
- GhostsAwake, on 02/20/2008, -0/+9Punch holes in a piece of paper.
- chewbacca77, on 02/20/2008, -0/+8Its real. Just look at the one you can alter further down on the page.
- inactive, on 02/20/2008, -0/+7Thanks Digg! My eyes are now bleeding.
- AvidPreatorian, on 02/20/2008, -0/+7Oh thanks internet, for another reason why I don't trust you... bastards...
- gudnbluts, on 02/20/2008, -0/+6That doesn't really prove anything, as the button could be doing more than just that.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 02/20/2008, -0/+6Here's the illusion akatherder is referring to:
http://thortz.com/tag/illusions/ - akatherder, on 02/20/2008, -0/+6That reminds me of the optical illusion of the green cylinder casting a shadow on a checkerboard. The white squares with a shadow cast upon them look very light gray, while the black squares appear to be very dark gray. As it turns out they are the same exact color. I had to pull the image open in photoshop so I could cut it out and drag the shapes around before I believed it.
- JDRay, on 02/20/2008, -0/+6If you stare at one of them, only seeing the other in your peripheral vision, your brain sorts out that they're in sync. I had to work on watching one while saying to myself, "white, black, white, black." It finally sorted itself out, but when I looked at the whole picture again, it went back to looking like they were alternating.
- yankjenets, on 02/20/2008, -0/+5your sense of rhythm sucks...
- Tgg161, on 02/20/2008, -0/+5Take some screenshots -- it will show that the colors match.
- igjoe, on 02/20/2008, -0/+5Reminds me of how we think clocks go "tick" "tock" when really its the same "tick" sound over and over again.
- cambob76, on 02/20/2008, -1/+50 Hz works pretty good.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 02/20/2008, -0/+3Depends on the clock.
- warrenterr, on 02/20/2008, -0/+3you can also hit the "remove surrounds" button
- below413, on 02/20/2008, -0/+3It's really about your perception of them being "filled" or "not filled." If you look at the white square, every time the circle in it turns black, making the donut and circle opposite colors, the other donut and circle are the same color and vice versa. This is easy to see and doesn't really require staring at it a long time, it's just hard to realize that this means that the circles are flashing in synch. Because the donut shapes are opposite colors the "anomaly" in them alternates. I don't think people perceive the actual circles as changing color out of synch, just the "anomalies" alternating.
- Andrew84, on 02/20/2008, -0/+3uhm no..how about you do this take a look at the page then press 'print-screen' on your keyboard then open up mspaint and paste it. The two dots are the same colour. Repeat this a few times during different points in the animation and every time the center dots will match.
- SolitarySoviet, on 02/20/2008, -0/+3actually your dead WRONG.. I didn't believe it either until I took a magazine I had lying around and poked two holes in one of the pages spaced apart the same as on the screen then placed it over like a mask... and to my surprise they flashed the very same with or without surrounds.... if you don't believe me try exactly what I did and see for yourself... oh and your technique if you think about it doesnt negateit because your only seeing one at a time and when you switch circles your still seeing the contrast switch WHICH CAUSES THE ILLUSION....
- oneperday, on 02/20/2008, -1/+4The effect occurs because when the white donut gets filled with black the contrast is apparent very early on, so it seems to be filled with black before the white has completely faded out. If it weren't for the fade, this effect wouldn't work.
- scitz0frenic, on 02/20/2008, -0/+2They would be better with sprinkles.
- jlungu, on 02/20/2008, -1/+3"Then each of you says "light" when your donut hole turns light. You'll soon be saying "light" simultaneously!"
... and showing one another your "O" face, no doubt. - NathanielJ, on 02/20/2008, -0/+2That's the same as with any other optical illusion. There are countless other illusions where it looks like one shade of grey is darker than another when they're not, or one line is longer than another when it's not. You could just as easily say for any of those that they just look darker or longer in contrast to their surrounding, so our eyes are telling us the truth.
The point of an illusion isn't that our eyes are giving us false information (they're not), it's that our brain does strange things when interpreting it. Take the Necker Cube for example. Our eyes aren't actually flipping it to look like it's oriented a different way, our brain does that because it doesn't have enough information to know what to do with it. Our eyes are still telling us the truth though. - jamesmudgett, on 02/20/2008, -0/+2This is absolute Horse *****! This is not an illusion its logic, you have one black circle and one light circle on either side, while both inner circles remain the same color white or black at the same time. The interval of color (which is blending into the background) is always going to occur at different intervals.
- Koray, on 02/20/2008, -0/+2Forget the friend thing. Put your hand between the two blinking circles to provide a barrier, now stare past the blinking dots like one of those retarded "if you stare hard enough you see dolphins" pictures. You see them blinking at the same time. I guess because you break up the contrast. But if you were skeptical about turning the background rings off, it's definitely flashing at the same exact time both ways.
- lotar732, on 02/20/2008, -0/+2Aziz, LIGHT!
- DanaLynn86, on 02/20/2008, -1/+3You haven't seen much today have you?
- kipmartin, on 02/20/2008, -1/+3wow! i own a suzywang 3000 and they are never wrong!
- scy1192, on 02/20/2008, -0/+2I was able to see them both going at the same time by staring at the white donut.
- inactive, on 02/22/2008, -0/+1It's interesting....
- MaxD, on 02/21/2008, -0/+1>It appears that the holes are changing in an opposite pattern.
No it doesn't. It looks like one dot is the same colour as its surrounding doughnut at the same time as the other dot is the opposite colour to its surrounding doughnut. This isn't an optical illusion. This is what is happening... isn't it? Did I miss something? Wasn't I supposed to see one dot being black when the other dot looked white... because that's not what I saw. - Anthropoid, on 02/21/2008, -0/+1Nah, they are taking turns being filled in. The center circles are the same color at the same time, but because the outer circles are different colors, they get filled in in turns.
- TheKeithD, on 02/21/2008, -0/+1No way! That's impossible!
- dexedrine, on 02/21/2008, -0/+1well you didn't say one donut was white and was was black. Of course the shades would look opposite...duh
- hotdiggery, on 02/20/2008, -0/+1If you think it's a hoax, try taking a few screenshots. That's what convinced me this is for real.
- SolitarySoviet, on 02/20/2008, -0/+1 I didn't believe it either until I took a magazine I had lying around and poked two holes in one of the pages spaced apart the same as on the screen then placed it over like a mask... and to my surprise they flashed the very same with or without surrounds.... if you don't believe me try exactly what I did and see for yourself... this way you cant cry foul when you click it and think its changing, the computer has no idea your holding up paper outside its world..
- DanaLynn86, on 02/20/2008, -0/+1For the win!
- feckineejit, on 02/20/2008, -1/+2you're a hoax... oh wait - that's whore, sorry.
- ep53, on 02/21/2008, -0/+1Take a Screen Shot in and paste it to MS Paint, and you will see that the two circles are allways the same colour.....
-
Show 51 - 100 of 103 discussions
Browsing Digg on your phone just got easier with our enhancements to the 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is