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		My favorite illusion video Well, you asked. It's the link above. Spinning Spiral This spinning spiral will appear to move, even though it is does not! Incredible spiral arraws This is one of the new illusions added to the site. Makes a nice wallpaper for your computer too! Have some fun! Try the Ambigrams Section. An ambigram is defined as a word that is the same upside down. Very fun, and make great tattoos too!

Starburst optical illusion trick

Does it look like a starburst on the corners?

What this illusion illustrates is that although it looks like there is an "airbrushed" starburst (white lines extenting from the center of the star to the corners) it is of course an OPTICAL ILLUSION! What I've actually done here is created a series of stars and placed them on top of eachother. With a slight gradient change in each successive layer.

This illusion also works with squares, but for sqares you only see the light starburst effect. It was called "vasarely's nested squares illusion. But when you try the illusion with a star, you also get the darkened shadow effect where it gives depth to the illusion. This is referred to as "Corner Angle Salience Variation". Don't look for that term on Jeopardy! anytime soon.

Perhaps the evolutionary reason for this is a fluke in our eye balls! The ganglion cells in the eye that compute the shade of a specific area have to relay that information to the brain. And while they relay the information to the brain, they do some extrapolating and that's where it gets confusing!