Motion Induced Blindness

Re:Motion Induced Blindness by scott_s on Sunday August 14, 2011 @08:16PM (#2884897)

I don't think motion is required. I remember staring at a patterned ceiling in 8th grade algebra class - if I focused on one point long enough, the further out patterns "disappeared."

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Re:Motion Induced Blindness by kronusaturn on Sunday August 14, 2011 @10:25PM (#2885174)

That's called Troxler's fading, caused by the gradual adaptation of photoreceptors in the retina to the recent average light level. But in the OP, the yellow dots are high in contrast, disappear in less than 5 seconds, and then seem to blink on and off at random. So I think this might not be the same effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troxler%27s_fading

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Re:Motion Induced Blindness by dean on Sunday August 14, 2011 @10:39PM (#2885203)

You can actually stop the motion in that page. I tried it, and although the dots seem to fade to a light gray, they did not go away completely for me.

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