Phantom spin illusion

[heermarcel]

Isn't this a stroboscopic effect?

[kilianguntner]

see the spin :) if looking at the center of the objects ... the low framerate is a key factor... didn't see that commented in the blog

[kilianguntner]

see the spin :) if looking at the center of the objjects ... the low framerate is a key factor... didn't see that commented in the blog

[plarkmoby]

I see no spin!

[viking4211]

Good optical illusions don't need to actually move to work.

[shani6969]

worked for me...

[fuglypump]

next video's title: "paint dries in slow motion"

[pktgfishbone]

@fuglypump - I laughed so hard at your comment!

[OddmusicNmore]

all this did was make my eyes hurt

[akbarblanchet]

It should have said at the beginning "stare at the middle and do not follow the movement"...

[JassiusJay]

I hate this video, let's murder it!

[mrlips007]

Ya I think Im too smart for this illusion because it didnt spin for me, just moved left to right.

[kravenraze]

Sry, but this is dumb.

[redbeast2]

Is this what people at Rutgers University waste their time with?

[lucasmontec]

@redbeast2 No. This is an eye and brain interpret study. This illusion is probably a test or result of some discovered function. Next time try to read before trolling.

[redbeast2]

@lucasmontec ಠ_ಠ

[frikkthoen]

I rarly dislike films, but this clip is shit. Sorry.

[Resisted1337]

jesus fucking christ.. im gonna unsubsricbe to this shit.. so they wont spam me with shit anymore

[timabad]

it just looks like a pattern moved with at a low frame rate =p didn't work

[obsleet]

Yes animation is neat-o.

[subsynchronous]

The animation seems to only works only at a certain staggered frame rate, any more or less and there would be no separate lines in the circle.

[ajetk]

nice...i wonder y we v have these illusions and based on what in nature...

[shnazzyone]

these videos are starting to suck. Some narration please. Stop teasing your freaking site and leaving out all the info or i'm gonna unsubscribe, i swear.

[miroradev]

oh yea i see now

[FFomegAAA]

they sud call illusions brain fuck ups

[isleofyew1]

Great, it worked for me.

[monkeyfunforidiots]

Attempt by New Scientist: Release a video which makes no sense without context, and put link to website containing explanation so people with think "What is this? Better click the link."

Result: People think "What is this? Better put a comment saying that I don't know what it is and that the video is shit, then move onto a video of a cat yawning."

[mackat4ck]

@monkeyfunforidiots So true. I think at least 50% of youtubers are retarded!

[marcarmstrong88]

@monkeyfunforidiots no. what people don't come on youtube for is to be spammed with shit vids, used just to regularly promote their site. this is a video streaming site. if the company is going to use it, then make full use and not some CHEAP, content weak, promotional crap.

[steffankaizer]

someone should make a studdy if the illusion works for people who have never seen something round roll

[AfghanLibre]

Dont work fail

[NotJames1]

it didn't work

[NotJames1]

explication required!

[ninja1gecko]

@NotJames1 then read the article that explains it...and maby a dictionary.

[shaolindreams]

can see it a bit.. but there are much better optical illusions out there :p

[lloyd1024]

didn't work.

[watermelonpizza]

I have a feeling newscientist is distching the commentary because they want people to go to their website :/

[paulopdm13]

it is because it lacked framerates

[Ormaaj]

...and unsubscribe.

[nelsonmilian00]

This is so fucking stupid, how did you think cartoons works?

[conradleviston]

@nelsonmilian00 The image is simply being moved to the left, but it appeared to be spinning. An animator would assume that you had to show the sticks in an intermediate position, so saying it is how cartoons work misses the point. If you used exactly the same technique, but used twice as many frames and moved the image half the distance it wouldn't work.

[adriank1223]

maybe it'll work better at higher quality video (thats a hint new scientist)

[atheistonly]

I love how my brain is tricked! lol

[sorry8140]

sweet

[djsuperstar717]

lol cool,

It works!!!

[globalarte]

This "kind" of works on the monitor screen because

the stroboscopic effect make the image blinks a little.

I'm not sure if it works on paper.

[grumbel45]

@globalarte Exactly, this illusion is kind of cheap, as it is not so much an error in the brain, but simply the result of the low framerate. If you look closely the framerate is timed so that the upward stick in the middle ring move exactly so far that it is replaced by the slightly tilted stick next to id in the next frame. Thus the brain thinks that the stick has tilted instead of moved to the left or right. At higher or just different framerate that wouldn't work.

[grumbel45]

This is also the reason why the illusion only works for the center ring, in the top and center ring things don't match up enough frame by frame to cause the confusion and you only get the illusion at the top and bottom half of the ring, as in the middle slice again the sticks don't match up with their neighbors and thus no rotation.

[Gigadrax]

They always have really bad illusions. :/

[Freddy199O]

I had to make an effort to see it, brix were not shat

[Ricard0dude]

I can sort of see it.

It's not very prominent though.

[jdroker]

i never saw it spin .__.

[majoche7]

i dont get it

[ErostheEpic]

What's behind those gray blocks? Boobs?

[M30W3R]

Science

Yawn

[TheDivineCellphone]

Im pretty sure the framerate is too low !

[ElectricBishop]

the more intelligent you are, the less it spins... convince yourself

[jbz3]

The irony of this illusion is that nothing is moving at all. It's all pixels blinking on and off, and due to the low frame rate, it can be interpreted as either transposition or rotation.

[gojo345]

So tha'ts what they spend their time on at Rutgers these days...

[pudgeypigeon]

high as fuck and that illusion doesn't do shit

[noisemaker111]

Not a very effective illusion imo

[PsySwitch1983]

You're messing with my mind without permission!

[Adipatus]

No Sandrine, yeah !!!!!

[chetopuffs]

I had to try really hard to see them...I think if it was more fluid it would work better

[BlankVellum]

My eyes!

[petesangyal2]

it only worked with the last one for me...

[jkjkjij22]

k so at first i saw shit. then iwatched it full screen and got close to the screen. and i saw it.

if ur about the thumbs down. then you haven't seen it/

[nickrose83]

You have to put your face close to the screen to get the full effect. Definitely seem to spin when the boxes are over them.

[lolocaustism]

THIS! my friends, is science!!

[gosucoaching]

0:31 to skip the video

[tERtasdf]

how is this scientific?

[DjDedan]

@tERtasdf illusions show how your brain works - thats why its science... anyway this is a new illusion but they should have posted instructions in the descriptor so the average american can figure it out...

[tERtasdf]

@DjDedan well there is nothing special about this, as alot of people have noticed..

[DjDedan]

@tERtasdf luckily science is not done by majority vote - and a more accurate statement would be "most people have not noticed what is special about this"... if you blow up the video and look closely at it you may see the illusion (which is stated in the linked article and not in the descriptor, unfortunately) - now if you expecting an earth-shattering experience you will be disappointed but i don't think thats the point of this illusion anyway...

[MrBCMarijuana]

WHAT THE FUCK HAS HAPPENED TO THIS CHANNEL!!!!

[Shketri]

uuuuhhh it ISN'T WORKING !

[Circle4]

These tests fail with people who have schizophrenia, you might want to have posted that in your description.

[fuunguus]

I didn't see the sticks spinning, but i definitely see something weird going on between those lines.

[Cuddlebunzzzz]

i shat bricks

[screamjackson]

the video isnt smooth enough and that's all i see and that's why i looks likes its spinning to me......

[KennyGJE]

Mind: Blown

[Cruithne3753]

A quiet week in the world of science?

[the12221]

works poorly

[heermarcel]

Very nice illusion!!! New for me.

[dychab]

Open up the description and click link after "Read more" - then You will get it!

[Chitownboy1023]

fail

[RedRainDrop]

dont get it

[marsCubed]

Can one animate the shapes so they look still when they move?

A hand held controller used to control the rate of rotation (to stop apparent rotation) could perhaps measure more precisely the degree to which individuals experienced the illusion.

Perhaps alongside brain imaging, this could pin down where illusion and rotation neurons are.. ie. what an illusion was in terms of brain geometry and how this was related to individual brain anatomy and genes.

[fatalist6o9]

Ahh! They're trying to hypnotize us into thinking they make good science videos...

[TMNWG]

Not really anything special; isn't this the same principle used in motion pictures, that if you present the brain with more images per second that it can fully process it'll interpret it as movement?

[psilocyberspaceman]

I like this effect so much, I have watched the video 99 times.

[RobOnDrugs]

@psilocyberspaceman I have watched the video 99 times to, just to see the effect lol.

Turns out, I have to look into the middle and past the moving parts for it to resemble, mildly, like the spokes on a wheel spinning.

[psilocyberspaceman]

@RobOnDrugs Are you on drugs?

[RobOnDrugs]

@psilocyberspaceman we are all on drugs my friend, all the time :)

As for how many drugs were manifactored in the watching of this video, I can only guess. I was def on the drug that gives rise to disapointment.

We are 99 times a junkie.

[ConstantinIV]

Ah, I've got it.

Don't look at the middle,

you've got to look at the ring that's one below the edge.

[yermomsboxx]

If you follow the image it doesn't spin. Or, at least it didn't for me.

[dembumboclot]

@yermomsboxx that's the point

[versasrev]

@yermomsboxx I thinks its more about keeping your eye following a single line that stops the illusion, than it is about following the group.

[SuperAtheist]

@yermomsboxx did you watch it in full screen?

[BIGGGY305]

i didnt get the effect.

[dream6601]

the one with 2 of them connected was pretty cool though

[bloodaid]

a circle made out of stick moving left to right to left (repeat).

then the same circle with a grey box covering half the circle moving left to right to left (repeat).

then TWO circles with a grey boxes covering them moving left to right to left (repeat).

*video end*

[dumbnetworks]

@bloodaid you are between 10 and 15 yrs old

[Jourei91]

@bloodaid

Quite interesting indeed.

[SuperAtheist]

@bloodaid way to miss the point.

[bottlezone]

@bloodaid Closed captioning for this video brought to you by Bloodaid.

[themightychickens]

Mind = blown

Well, not really.

[Richardgwm]

Proud Mary keeps on rollin'.