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If you've never seen the optical illusion, it is stunning.

You stare at the center (unmoving) dot in a moving field. The field remains; the dot fades away - and POPS back the second your eyes move.

Your unconscious, constant "jiggling" of your eyes is called saccadal movement. Without it, only moving things would be visible - which is true for frogs.



That reminds me of the one 'trick' I was able to play on myself with a windshield mounted GPS. Placing it just so in the overlapping vision that it effectively becomes transparent from the brain's compositing of the two images.




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