Motion-Induced Blindness

What: Three big, bright yellow dots. Not faint, not tiny, not hiding. And yet, stare at the middle for a few seconds and they just… leave. Sometimes one at a time, sometimes two, sometimes all three at once. This one was found by Yoram Bonneh, Alexander Cooperman and Dov Sagi at the Weizmann Institute in 2001 [1]. Their original version was a swarm of blue dots spinning on a 3D sphere, but the spinning grid with the flashing green dot is the one that took over the internet, and honestly it’s the better one.

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