• @[email protected]
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      401 year ago

      Eyes/brain more sensitive to brightness than colour. Black+white border is bright, is updated in the brain quickly, dim image of Patrick is updated more slowly. Discrepancy causes percieved movement.

      • @DanglingFury
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        I noticed my center screen on my dash does this when driving at night. Very perturbing when i notice it in my peripheral vision moving out of sync with the rest of the dash and moving more than everything else.

    • foips
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      Eyes bad

  • Cosmonaut_Collin
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    For the people that may not know what to look for or can’t see the illusion, Slowly tilting your phone (or monitor I guess) makes it look like Patrick is slightly bobbing back and forth in the void. Should be obvious what it is supposed to be I guess.

    Actually, shaking fast also works just found out. Somehow the image of Patrick lags behind the movement of the border when the brain processes what it’s looking at.

    • lazyslacker
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      I don’t know this for sure but I’m thinking this is happening due to something about how OLED/AMOLED screens work.

      • IWantToFuckSpez
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        No. This effect works on my phone with an LCD screen. It’s an optical illusion. It’s because of our brains.

  • Dr. Coomer
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    151 year ago

    “Aw man, that was my last quarter”

  • @[email protected]
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    Oh yeah, that’s cool, the QR code around him began expanding and taking over my entire field of vision. The only thing I can see now besides this black and white void is Patrick on the mechanical seahorse… stationary… beckoning to me to give him another quarter… I must go now.

    • @PowerGloveSoBad
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      After a few seconds it looks like Patrick is moving independently from the background border. Basically he just turns his head towards you and opens his mouth like he’s screaming. A jpeg obviously doesn’t make any sound, lol, but it’s drawn in such a way that we all know what must be done