Posted on 07/29/2008 6:25:25 AM PDT by yankeedame
Being partially color blind, I can “stop the motion” of these pix by simply fixing my point of vision within the image.
There are some spectacular pictures there. Thanks for posting.
What does it mean if one doesn’t see movement at all?
pretty cool - thanks for sharing it
i am colorblind as well and it may be why some of them don’t work for me that well.
I have MS and some optic nerve damage...none of them move for me. I also never could do those 3D books where you hold them close to your nose them move them away and you’re supposed to see a 3D image...I just looked like a fool trying over and over to move the book back and forth from my eyes, LOL.
When I took a physical exam to enter the Army, I saw only 3 or 4 of the 13 or 15 numbers in the array of colored dots circles. Ruled me out of being a pilot or an electrician. Wanted to be a Combat Engineer, anyways - build stuff and blow stuff up.
My wife used to have fun with me at parties. She would bring a girl friend over to me and say, “Watch this - it’s cute!” and then ask me, “Honey - what color are those curtains?”. I would see brown - she would giggle to her friend, “Isn’t that cute - he thinks their brown!”
We celebrate 30 years of marriage next week :-)
what color are they?
I think it means you are a serial killer...
j/k
Check your pulse...
Actually, it's the fact that your eyes move around the picture that creates the illusion of motion. They would also appear to move if they were in black and white. When you fix your vision in one spot, they stop moving.
Curtains were green. If I see brown or green (or many other colors) in isolation, I often have trouble identifying it. It it’s in close proximity to the complementary color, I can often discern the proper colors. I used to have to sneak up slowly on rural intersections in small towns in Oklahoma at night as I had to determine what location on the light bar the flashing light was - as I couldn’t tell if it was yellow or red.
As I typed that, what you wrote is what I was actually thinking. Color blindness can keep one from seeing the contrasting parts that “move”.
Thanks for the morning laugh!
What a GREAT sense of humor she has. That’s too funny. :)
I understand what you mean. I didn’t take it from that perspective. I took it only from the pattern perspective relative to eye movement.
I always wondered why color blindness is the only handicap that it’s OK to make fun of.
She tells me the only reason I keep her around is because she makes me laugh.
We got married in college. She brought a brown, 1975 Chevy Nova hatchback to the marriage. One day, she was supposed to have parked it in a certain spot, as I needed it for work. It was NOT there - I thought it had been stolen. I dragged her out of class with this notion and stood in the parking lot where the car should have been, being near hysterical.
She was laughing her butt off. I was standing behind our car. I was looking for our brown car and all I saw was a “green” one that looked like it. sigh
That took years to live down.
She now drives a Yellow Xterra - easy for me to spot.
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