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 Eye poison (03 Jul 2006 at 18:13)
Here's a freaky optical illusion that keeps going and going. I feel a little like my brain has been poisoned like in Snow Crash.
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t		 nothings (adsl-70-231-155-78.dsl.snfc21.sbcglobal.net) – 07.03.06 19:11:01
Wow!
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t		 jcreed (cmu-177829.wv.cc.cmu.edu) – 07.03.06 19:11:48
Yeah, I started feeling really weird as soon as I looked at the green and magenta thingies.
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t		 Tom 7 (h-67-100-132-27.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) – 07.03.06 22:36:17
MY EYES ARE STILL POISONED
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t		 Sridhar (c-67-165-105-98.hsd1.pa.comcast.net) – 07.04.06 12:36:06
The green on the horizontal lines is really strong for me, while I can't seem to get the magenta on the vertical lines to be anything but rather subtle; I barely noticed it at first.

The longevity of the effect is nifty, though. I keep wasting time by rotating my head and watching the colors go away and then return changed.
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t		 Brian (gs134.sp.cs.cmu.edu) – 07.04.06 14:30:55
I first saw the McCollough effect in a class in perception I took in 1998. I don't remember if I've repeated it since then. But I definitely see the effect without staring at the color grids first.

I'm sure it is a coincidence. Probably.
No, I'm not an extrovert.
What does he mean, V1 is monocular?!?
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t		 Adhesion (cpe-66-67-225-129.rochester.res.rr.com) – 07.04.06 14:34:04
Yeah, this thing kinda... stays with you.

I did it for a decent amount of time a few weeks ago and I STILL see it. Urgh.
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t		 Tom 7 (gs82.sp.cs.cmu.edu) – 07.04.06 19:08:19
I think I'm finally cured!
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t		 Max (c-71-235-198-237.hsd1.ma.comcast.net) – 07.05.06 22:58:10
Aah poisoned
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t		 mike (tierzero.net) – 07.06.06 21:37:42
When you've recovered, check out the moving magic eye on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Stereogram_Tut_Random_Dot_Shark.png
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t		 Tom 7 (h-72-244-71-39.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) – 07.06.06 22:19:07
It ain't movin'!
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t		 Hock (ppp-71-139-55-225.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net) – 07.07.06 00:46:58
This one does:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Stereogram_Tut_Animated_Shark.gif
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t		 mike (tierzero.net) – 07.07.06 01:19:25
Sorry for the wrong link!
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t		 Adam (cldmz-nat-12-108-127-161.pittsburgh.intel-research.net) – 12.18.06 13:25:00
Still poisoned...
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t		 Tom 7 (gs82.sp.cs.cmu.edu) – 12.18.06 14:13:15
I still kinda see it too, but it's nowhere near as prominent as when I first did it.
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t		 Adam (bering.isr.cs.cmu.edu) – 10.20.09 12:42:53
WTF is lumeta.com corrupting your database
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