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Globe effect optical illusion ? (1 Viewer)
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Chosun Juan
Given to Fly
I couldn't get it to move !?!
I thought I saw a unicorn beginning to emerge though like one of those 3D pictures
Oh, and there's a distinct colour cast too .......
Chosun :gh:
I thought I saw a unicorn beginning to emerge though like one of those 3D pictures
Oh, and there's a distinct colour cast too .......
Chosun :gh:
It moves for me.
If there is a tiny white spot on the ceiling from a gap in the curtains, from sun illumination, the spot moves constantly, yet I realise it is actually standing still.
If a round torch beam shines an extended spot on a wall or ceiling in a darkish room, then the spot turns into a quite thin oval as I move the torch beam. As soon as the movement stops the spot is round again.
The eyes are strange things, easily fooled.
If there is a tiny white spot on the ceiling from a gap in the curtains, from sun illumination, the spot moves constantly, yet I realise it is actually standing still.
If a round torch beam shines an extended spot on a wall or ceiling in a darkish room, then the spot turns into a quite thin oval as I move the torch beam. As soon as the movement stops the spot is round again.
The eyes are strange things, easily fooled.
WJC
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Yep; quite fast, too. With the image below, it is plain to see the right side of the opened leaf is darker than the one on the left. But when two or three fingers are placed in the center, it is very plain we were wrong. They are the SAME darkness.
That's why I say that some of the things people CLAIM to see ... they don't! :cat:
Bill
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There's a whole bunch of these moving optical illusions here https://www.theguardian.com/science...g-optical-illusions-akiyoshi-kitaoka-pictures
Steve C
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It has a lot to do with actual viewing through binoculars...if you are affected by rolling ball. Aside from the strange patterns in the OP illusion, that is just about how a Swarovski SV EL image looks to me when I'm moving the binocular, which is the precise reason I did not keep any of the EL SV I have owned. I'd have the 8.5x42 SV if that were not the case. Excellent binocular aside from the RB.
You are obviously not affected by the phenomena. Go somewhere and thank your lucky stars for that
. Evidently most people, like you, are not, but for the minority of us who are it is a different matter entirely. If you are not affected you simply have no idea how it affects the view :eek!:.I sometimes think that if I had the proverbial three wishes, one of them would be to insure all binocular users would (for a short time only, I'd not wish my affliction on anybody permanently) be affected by RB like the SV EL affects me. That would put a rapid end to the controversy over what it is and whether or not it even exists.
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Steve C
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And your other two wishes (based on your first one, I want to get prepared)?
I'd probably drop dead if I were offered the three wishes!
However those other two would leave binocular use unaffected and it is uncertain I'd use the first as indicated, however it is something I have considered.Pileatus
I full well realize there is a proven, documented phenomena called the globe effect. However there are many people, who have posted that is it an imaginary phenomena or that you will get used to it and that Swarovski would never put things like that into the SV, etc, etc, etc. All sorts of denial exists, in spite of the fact it is a real deal. Just my way of tweaking their chain I suppose. I will always maintain that you have no idea of what it is really like unless you can see it for yourself.
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dries1
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The only downside to me regarding the SV EL models I have is in the panning mode, the EDG to me provides the best compromise in flat views, no globe effect. I find the EL SV 12X50 to have the least effect of the globe when panning out of the current models I have (8.5X42 and the 10X50).
Andy W.
Andy W.
Chosun Juan
Given to Fly
How bizarre !
This coloured graphic seems to move much more readily for me !
The trick to making it move seems to be looking at the centre of conical column, or the leading edge of the ball. If I look at the far (rhs) edge of the conical coloumn - pretty much no movement.
Chosun :gh:
This coloured graphic seems to move much more readily for me !
The trick to making it move seems to be looking at the centre of conical column, or the leading edge of the ball. If I look at the far (rhs) edge of the conical coloumn - pretty much no movement.
Chosun :gh:
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