Motion Induced Blindness

[gibbons]

Why you don't look for traffic by focusing in one spot, especially at night:

http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot_mib/index.html

"Steady fixation favours disappearance, blinks or gaze shifts induce reappearance. All in all reminiscent of the Troxler effect, but stronger and more resistant to residual eye movements."

Lots of other cool optical illusions at this site.

Chip

 

[woodstock]

wow, that really is interesting!

 

[Diana]

Lots of other cool optical illusions at this site.

Chip

Very interesting site! A person could spend a lot of time playing there.

I liked the "biological motion".

 

[Dan Deutsch]

Very Cool! That's a keeper.

Maybe that's why I lose the runway on approach, I keep looking through that spinning thing out front!