best optical illusion ever, for serious.

[alexr_rwx]

If you don't read the Mind Hacks blog, you probably should!

They're up on it, linking to the very best optical illusion I've seen yet. It's a picture of some cartoony almond-like nuts that looks like it's animated (in a slightly disconcerting, wavy sort of way) -- but it's just not. If you squint, or focus really hard, you can tell that it's not moving.

Bizarre. Brains and minds and eyes, seriously, wtf?

Comments

[lindseykuper]

Hey, yeah! That's a really good one. Actually, the easiest way for me to tell it's not animated is to unfocus and try to take in the whole thing at once. If I focus, I can only look at a part of it at a time, and that's when it goes all wiggly.