Can you see all 12 dots?
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...at once?
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If I move my chair back a few feet, yes.
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@boomzilla Technically? Yes. The light rays that define the shape of the dots strikes the retinas of my eyeballs, thus fulfilling the criteria of your query.
However, can I distinguish all of them at the same time? No. At best, I can see three (adjacent in a horizontal line) because the criss-crossing gray lines blur the specific identifying characteristics of the particular dots that are outside the very small, central focus region of my field of vision but still within my peripheral vision.
I do enjoy these displays of visual quirks, and I like to analyze why they do what they do to our perceptions.
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@djls45 said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
strikes the retinas of my eyeballs
Some of them clearly don't, or your brain wouldn't be filling in the spaces.
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@djls45 said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
The light rays that define the shape of the dots strikes the retinas of my eyeballs, thus fulfilling the criteria of your query.
That could happen to a blind person but no one would say that the blind person saw anything.
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THERE! ARE! FOUR! DOTS!
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No.
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@Lorne-Kates
Software limit of FF22, newer versions support 4 bits for dot display
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@djls45 said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
@boomzilla Technically? Yes. The light rays that define the shape of the dots strikes the retinas of my eyeballs, thus fulfilling the criteria of your query.
People like you are what's wrong with this
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Twelve? I see hundreds of them! Thousands even!
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@da-Doctah said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
I see hundreds of them! Thousands even!
Either you need a better monitor, or to step back from it...
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@boomzilla said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
...at once?
If I turn my head on one side about 50 degrees, I can get sort of close.
And my eyes are now watering. @aliceif needs to incorporate this sort of thing in her desktop background…
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Technically, my active Stage representation of my screen does contain all 12 black-colored circles (in addition to the grey lines, #GreyLinesMatter and white triangles #WhiteTrianglesMatter), but indeed, my physical eyes don't accurately distinguish them out of band for my central retina area zone 0.
But, thanks to intelli-scan methodology, I do have the full image in memory and can.. wait, I can't actually count all of them at once, hold on, I need to figure out where my virtual register allocation table went...
BeRightBackKThxBye
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I can only see a few at a time.
I know, that's kind of disappointing.
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It's a PNG with JPEG artefacts? Nice!
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@boomzilla The range of your precision vision doesn't allow it. So your peripheral takes over, but then it's too blurred to distinguish from the gray line enough for your brain to accept it as distinct objects, then your brain adjusts for shadows and patterns, and poof. Probably more influenced by the pattern, and makes the assumption, so it copies that pattern out to the extent of the box.
So, you can see 2-3 at desk distance, but the rest are filtered out, you literally do not see them.
It's actually more amazing that your brain can predict where the pattern ends, and tricks you into thinking you see the entire box.
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@boomzilla said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
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Kinda disappointing. Sure, it makes stuff act a little oddly but only very lightly.
Plus, it was very hard for me to focus on the center of the animation.
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@aliceif said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
it was very hard for me to focus on the center of the animation.
I made a point to try and focus my attention on the little numbers as best I could. It was fun :D
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@aliceif said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
@boomzilla said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
Follow up:
is not responsible for any seizures you may suffer as a result of going there.
Kinda disappointing. Sure, it makes stuff act a little oddly but only very lightly.
Plus, it was very hard for me to focus on the center of the animation.
Agreed, the effect lasted a little less than two seconds for me. Perhaps if it let you specify a longer duration?
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@Yamikuronue said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
@aliceif said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
it was very hard for me to focus on the center of the animation.
I made a point to try and focus my attention on the little numbers as best I could. It was fun :D
I hated it.
EDIT: Not because of unpleasantness but because it was so hard to forcibly keep focus. And it flashed at times.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
Agreed, the effect lasted a little less than two seconds for me.
Sheesh...tough crowd.
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@boomzilla said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
Agreed, the effect lasted a little less than two seconds for me.
Sheesh...tough crowd.
Sorry, was it supposed to be funny? In that case, it was hilarious for the attempt at persisted illusion! ;)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
Sorry, was it supposed to be funny?
No, just an amusing little diversion.
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@aliceif said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
@boomzilla said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
Follow up:
is not responsible for any seizures you may suffer as a result of going there.
Kinda disappointing. Sure, it makes stuff act a little oddly but only very lightly.
Plus, it was very hard for me to focus on the center of the animation.
I just tells me to upgrade to Google Chrome.
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@boomzilla The page should tell us to focus on the whole image instead of just the center.
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A slightly different take on the one in the OP..
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@PJH This is mean.
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@aliceif most of the images on that tumblr are...
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it’s difficult to see more than one at a time
Is it? I can see two pretty easily by looking at the dot in between
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@Jaloopa said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
it’s difficult to see more than one at a time
Is it? I can see two pretty easily by looking at the dot in between
i can get an entire row of four if i focus right.....
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@accalia except the top row
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@Jaloopa said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
@accalia except the top row
for some reason i can only get three on the top row.
xxox
no idea why that missing one is ther or why it's in that position
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@accalia said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
for some reason i can only get three on the top row.
Have a look at some of the other illusions on that tumblr - you might find the missing one among them...
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I can get them all if I spend enough time 'warming up' by looking at each one and then a row at a time, but there's only 11. I can't see the third on the top row even if I look directly at it. I've looked all over and I'm pretty sure there isn't an 'extra' dot in a different position.
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@accalia said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
for some reason i can only get three on the top row.
@CarrieVS said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
I can't see the third on the top row even if I look directly at it.
I can confirm there are only three dots on that top row.
Also, the blog is a piss-take.
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@PleegWat said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
@Zecc said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
Looks like a banana to me.
really? i see a curved yellow dildo myself.....
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@accalia Why doesn't that surprise me?
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@RaceProUK said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
I can confirm there are only three dots on that top row.
Yeah - I ended up plugging it into gimp and verifying that. Was driving me nuts.
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@cvi said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
Yeah - I ended up plugging it into gimp and verifying that. Was driving me nuts.
I can't beleive so much effort went into something that was supposed to be a joke...
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@Jaloopa said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
@cvi said in Can you see all 12 dots?:
45 seconds of work isn't that much effort
Tell that to a mod
we had two "libel" today