Software turns up illusion

   June 23/30, 2008
The right patterns in the right colors can produce the illusion of motion, and over the years scientists have figured out how these repeated asymmetric patterns work on the brain's visual system. Software that generates images using these rules dramatically enhances the effect.

The software can be used to make images that look like they are moving.

Download the researchers' sample images. Let your eyes roam naturally around the pictures.

Research paper:
Self-Animating Images: Illusory Motion Using Repeated Asymmetric Patterns
SIGGRAPH 2008, Los Angeles, August 11-15, 2008

Researchers' homepages:
Ming-Te Chi
Tong-Yee Lee
Yingge Qu
Tien-Tsin Wong

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