Can You Explain the Mind-Bending Glass Trick?

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Mk said:
http://gprime.net/images/circleillusion/afterimage.gif
Wow that's pretty cool. I' never seen dat one before.

excellent. people should be talking about this. don't know how to feel when my wimpy mind gets fooled, still pretty good.
 
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lol, yeah.

What you do is stare at the cross in the middle. Focus your eyes onto it, and imagine its just a cross in a gray square. Then it becomes[\i] a cross in a gray square, with a green circle revolving around it. Freaky.
 

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