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Old 25-August-2008, 01:12 AM
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Originally Posted by hhEb09'1 View Post
If I look closely and follow individual lines, it's clear that there is a single point about which everything else is rotating.
I mean the animation is inherently ambiguous. It is not one thing or the other. There's no right and wrong.

OK, I wouldn't but it does look like some classify ambiguous visual stimuli as optical illusions of a sort, but they're not the classic type where appearances are different from reality. The latter are more respectful of the meaning of "illusion".

Edit: The opening description is a bit like saying: This Necker Cube (Wikipedia) was really a cube with the bottom surface visible to the viewer. If you can (also) see a cube where the top surface is visible, you're not seeing what is really there.

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