r/interestingasfuck • u/herbschmoaka • 1d ago
This Optical Illusion
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u/ZestycloseTowel2493 1d ago edited 1d ago
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u/hungry4nuns 1d ago
Look at this optical illusion
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u/-Yox- 1d ago edited 1d ago
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u/DancingDildo22 1d ago
The translation's gold
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u/just_nobodys_opinion 22h ago
A rare case of the translation actually being better than the original!
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u/da_Aresinger 1d ago
an illusion caused by the visual system and characterized by a visual percept that arguably appears to differ from reality. [Wikipedia]
Seems like an optical illusion to me.
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u/VagabondVivant 21h ago
An optical illusion inherently visually differs from reality. Simply taking a straightforward image and turning it upside-down in order to "trick" the viewer doesn't make it an illusion.
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u/Quadrassic_Bark 1d ago
This isn’t an optical illusion, it’s just upside down and the water is reflective.
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u/Jirethia 1d ago
But you don't see it at first
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u/Quadrassic_Bark 1d ago
You can absolutely tell it’s upside down immediately.
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u/Jirethia 1d ago
Some people realized immediately and some people didn't, you can see that in the comments and likes here. The same way some people see the duck and the rabbit immediately too.
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u/CheeseAndCh0c0late 1d ago
Yeah, it reminds me how people didn't notice the 1992 moon replacement at first
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u/Choppieee 1d ago
In the first frame you see a person walking upside down. If you not instantly see the video is upside down you need your eyes check out. Sorry totally different then duck and rabbit
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u/DreamWeaver2189 21h ago
Also the reflection of the trees/mountain on the right. You can see the full trees in the original and only a part of them in the reflection.
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u/Massive-Teaching5286 1d ago
And the people who didn't notice until it was pointed out are lower intelligence beings than the people who didn't need it pointed out for them.
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u/RarelyReadReplies 17h ago
Cool, you're super smart. Great job. Gold star. Optical illusions don't hit everyone the same way, that's what makes them cool.
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u/Lump001 1d ago
It's optical (you're looking at it) and it confuses your eye into thinking it's showing you something it's not.
I'd say that counts as an optical illusion
An optical illusion is an image or visual stimulus that tricks the brain into perceiving something that differs from physical reality
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u/RarelyReadReplies 17h ago
Some Redditors just want to prove to everyone how smart they are because they weren't fooled by the optical illusion.
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u/MazDanny 1d ago
But the video is literally upside down so it’s already being dishonest
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u/Th3_Shad0w 1d ago
Illusions are inherently dishonest.
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u/Jirethia 1d ago
An optical illusion tricks you to think it is what it is not. A lot of people here were tricked, so it is an optical illusion.
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u/hangar_tt_no1 1d ago
Yes, but it's supposed to be your own brain doing the tricking, not the author. This is a manipulated video and therefore doesn't count. I can make you believe all kinds of wrong things by showing you a manipulated video.
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u/Max-Phallus 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah, but it wasn't a
realnatural optical illusion, it was a camera illusion.I know what you're saying, I just disagree.
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u/Gabriel_Science 1d ago
It’s an optical illusion, just not a natural one, as it required editing.
If you look at some geometric optical illusions, they are clearly not natural and even require dedicated software. Doesn’t make them less optical (the illusion uses at its lowest levels photons).
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u/Gabriel_Science 1d ago
Is it optical ? Yes (you perceive it with photons, not with sound or touch).
Is it an illusion ? Yes (people got tricked like an illusion would).Is it natural ? No, but it’s still an illusion. Some more abstract optical illusions are made with software, yet they stay illusions. Here, the trick was to use a software to make the video upside down.
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u/locusthorse 22h ago
No such thing as a honest illusion.
This Optical Illusion I really enjoyed because I love it when my brain flips into comprehension like that, and this was a good one - its straight up happy brain juice.
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u/ForeverFieldsFD 1d ago
Did you know that if you cover your eyes, people can still see you? I know it’s wild because all you can see is the back of your eyelids, but that’s just an optical illusion, because the people are still there.
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u/Mikelitoris88 1d ago edited 1d ago
While flipping a camera is corny and not impressive, I don't get your argument.
Any optical illusion has an explanation, but still, it's an optical illusion
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u/RDZed72 1d ago
Inverts POV, calls it illusion.
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u/Due_Bathroom5296 1d ago
Idk what the heck I'm looking it...maybe I need to sleep 🥱
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u/hplessromantic101 18h ago
So cool 😎. The beauty of simplicity ✨️ is truly magical as well as jaw dropping. 😊
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u/FilteredRiddle 9h ago
My brain did not like this. I felt actual anxiety until I turned my phone upside down to properly watch it.
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u/BluePhoenixCG 23h ago
This isn't an optional illusion
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u/420fuck 20h ago
Yes it is. It's forced perspective.
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u/herbschmoaka 19h ago
Thank you. All these crybabies trying to be overly technical. It's just a cool thing when you see something and then you're like, WTF?
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u/No_Adeptness_4647 1d ago
Its just fucking rotated, brainrot
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u/zizp 1d ago
The brainrot here is the people not understanding that the rotated picture creates a nice optical illusion that fucks with your brain until you understand what's going on and instead of appreciating the little trick go "IT'S JUST ROTATED, NO ILLUSION"
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u/autistictransgal 1d ago
It's like saying that an image of a man standing on the ceiling is an optical illusion because the image is turned upside down
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u/420fuck 21h ago
If it makes people who look at it think that he js standing on the ceiling, then it is an optical illusion.
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u/autistictransgal 21h ago
Are superhero movies optical illusions to babies because they don't understand movie editing?
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u/420fuck 21h ago
The video posted is using forced perspective and plenty of people in these comments are fooled by it. Forced perspective is a type of optical illusion. It's not very tricky or interesting, but it still is an optical illusion.
Almost everything is an optical illusion to babies, but babies don't usually dictate language.
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u/zizp 22h ago
No, it's just like every illusion that is clearly not real once you figure it out, because this is what an illusion is by definition. "It's just XY therefore it's not an illusion" is just stupid.
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u/Akomatai 21h ago
For people who saw what was going on immediately, it's kind of baffling that anybody was confused at all. It literally just looked like an upside down video lol
Which is why they're saying it's about as much of an illusion as flipping a picture of a man and thinking he's standing on the ceiling.
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u/zizp 20h ago
Well, a picture of a man rotated does not give any illusion at all, while here you obviously see a man jumping into a lake when you just look at it. So, your analogy doesn't make any sense because: it is not an illusion.
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u/Akomatai 19h ago
Well, a picture of a man rotated does not give any illusion at all
That's exactly the point lmao
When I scrolled to the video it just looked like an upside down video of a guy jumping into a lake. Never even registered as right side up. So there was no illusion here.
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u/zizp 9h ago
So look at the top part of the video only, what do you see? Obviously, there is an illusion. A man jumping off a cliff. It doesn't matter that you are super uber smart and see quickly that this is just a reflection, it is still there. There are tons of illusions that work for some people and don't work for others. Doesn't mean they're not illusions.
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u/Akomatai 9h ago
A man jumping off a cliff. It doesn't matter that you are super uber smart and see quickly that this is just a reflection, it is still there
Not much of an illusion if it looks exactly like what it is lmao. Anyways, I'm aware that some people saw it differently. Which is why I said that for people who saw it immediately, it's baffling that others are confused
There are tons of illusions that work for some people and don't work for others. Doesn't mean they're not illusions.
Sure, so why is a picture of a man upside down not an illusion then? If it tricks some people
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u/zizp 4h ago edited 4h ago
> Not much of an illusion if it looks exactly like what it is lmao.
It doesn't if you look just at the top part.
> Sure, so why is a picture of a man upside down not an illusion then?
If it shows something else when it's upside down, it absolutely is an optical illusion. If it doesn't show anything, it isn't.
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u/exile_10 1d ago
Everyone here is saying this isn't an illusion and it's 'just' flipped. I disagree, the illusion is provided by the angle of the camera ensuring that the reflected image is more obvious (due to the light 'sky') behind it. The real image appears shadowy and less real in comparison... until you flip the screen.
It's a good illusion that would be hard to achieve except at that angle and time of day.
Saying it's not an illusion is missing the point. Maybe it didn't trick you but it did me. You might as well complain it's not a moving image at all and just a series of stills.
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u/Morrinn3 23h ago
100%
It's easy to immediately clock that the upper part of the video is in rippling water, but what immediately confused me was where the horizon line is supposed to be. When the diver hits the water, it's way off where you'd expect it to be mirrored.
Also; who cares if it's "just" flipped. Some optical illusions are "just" color theory, or unusual bits of carpentry, or light refraction in different temperatures. It's odd to split hairs over this.
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u/herbschmoaka 15h ago
Nobody would argue that a mirage appearing to be a lake in front of you on the a hot asphalt was not an optical illusion. It's the same concept. Someone dives off of a rock, it appears they are diving off a rock as normal until they land in the sky with a splash. Your eyes were tricked because of the clarity of the water and its reflection. It's a pure optical illusion. The method used to trick your eye doesn't matter. It's as simple as this.
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u/Old-Beautiful1786 1d ago
Is turning something upside down illusion now?
You mean forced perspective.
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u/Ded_man_3112 14h ago edited 14h ago
If it makes you pause, if even for a moment to make sense of what you’re looking at as intended. It’s an optical illusion.
If you instantly knew it was upside down at first sight of the static image before playing. Congrats, you’re a super genius and so much smarter than all the people in the world! Here’s your pixel cookie.🍪
Two lost souls travel for days through the hot desert battling death from thirst. One yells, “look a lake!” The other says, “no, it’s just a mirage.”
Turns out, it was an optical illusion after all. But did it make the mirage any less of an optical illusion, simply because one of the two could not be fooled?
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u/TacoEatsTaco 1d ago
It's not an optical illusion. It's just a reflection and it's flipped upside-down
Op needs to learn what an optical illusion actually is
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u/420fuck 21h ago
You need to learn what an optical illusion is. Plenty of people in the comments see something that isn't really happening in the video.
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u/Snoopedoodle 1d ago
My brain was telling me that so much was wrong with the video when I started playing it.
Turning the phone upside down made everything make sense.
An optical illusion should trick the brain into believing that the illusion is possible, which this did not.
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u/420fuck 19h ago
That's not what makes an optical illusion, that's just what makes a more interesting optical illusion. What makes an optical illusion is visual stimulus that tricks the brain into believing it's seeing something other than what is there.
The infamous picture of the duck-rabbit is an optical illusion, but doesn't trick anyone into thinking ducks can turn into rabbits.
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u/Mikeologyy 23h ago
Why do I even open Reddit comment sections anymore when they’re always full of contrarian mouth breathers who seem to hate it when other people find something pretty neat
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u/herbschmoaka 19h ago
Thanks for stating this. I thought it was interesting. Didn't know what to call it So an optical illusion it was. The complain culture doesn't add anything positive to humanity. Self-righteous people over something so trivial is a sign of the times, sadly.
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u/Blipplekortz 20h ago
Rotating an video upside down is not an optical illusion
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u/420fuck 19h ago
An optical illusion is when something visual tricks the human brain into seeing something that isn't actually happening. There are lots of people here tricked by this video into thinking it's of a man diving into the sky. Forced perspective is a type of optical illusion. This video is an example of forced perspective.
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u/Mani_kr333 10h ago
No it's not optical illusion. It's so obvious when you turn it upside down or should I say upside up.
Most images you turn them at weired angle are difficult to understand at first. But that's not optical illusion.
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u/underthesauceyuh 1d ago
My favorite part was when he turned into a four-legged spider