Surface-Shifting illusion (self-made illusion)

[z-design]

So I was fooling around with trippy shit in flash at my school, and stumbled across this. I looked at it for a while and then looked at the table and it looked like the table surface was fuckin caving in.

You'll need to download this .fla file. You'll have to have a decently fast computer. This doesn't work in browsers because browsers hinder the speed of the blinking RGB lines, so that the movement of the RGB lines is messed up and the illusion wont work. Thats why im having you download a .fla, because its way smoother running at 57fps. You will need the flash program to open it.

http://foofy.swiftco.net/zane/images/rgb.fla

WARNING!! Do not try if you have epilepsy.

Directions:
1. Open
2. Ctrl+enter to play
3. stare and concentrate on white dot in center for about 20-30 seconds
4. look at your wall, table, or floor, and CONCENTRATE ON ONE spot on either of those surfaces, dont look to where its shifting.
5. Repeat steps until you have a raging headache.

You can rotate all of the lines and turn it 180 degrees, that will make the shifting move upward instead of downward. Rotating it 90 or 270 degrees will make your computer slow.

[400exXx]

I have epilepsy :wah:

[OLIAX]

http://foofy.swiftco.net/zane/images/rgb.swf



the only thing that happens to me is everything loses colour depth (everything looks greyish)
also when staring at it for a long time the lines appeared to grow larger

(Hit F11 when you open it in firefox)

someone link me to an fla player I wanna see this go faster (even though it's fast enough already I can notice small artifacts that looks like the refresh rate through a video camera when I stand away from the monitor)

[emster]

Holy shit, everything started to look dull. Good job.

[drastic83]

Holy shit, my eyes feel tingly after wards. Like it's giving them a workout, or maybe it's fucking them up. If I go blind I'm hunting you down!

[irish hokage]

Holy shit, my eyes feel tingly after wards. Like it's giving them a workout, or maybe it's fucking them up. If I go blind I'm hunting you down!

How will you be able to see him ? :ohnoes:

[Slick37c]

How will you be able to see him ? :ohnoes:

Sonar.

10Dolphinboys

[fire-eater]

what will happen if u have epilepsy? death?

[cokepepsisnappl]

You go into a seizure or convulsions and you swing around, all your muscles go out of control twitching, clenching as tight as they can, tossing around, it is concievable that you could die. Head injuries, cracked teeth, bitten off tongue, passing out from suffocation, brain damage from lack of oxygen, car crash, drowning, you name it. Here's a video of someone having an epileptic seizure. Claims to be graphic, but it's nothing. Just a little shocking how bad it is, some people have even worse ones. Notice how she turns blue to the end of the video. However I must say the cannabis part is BS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV40H_g-NJo
Video on how to help, types of seizures too. I think I've seen someone have a seizure, it was short too. These videos are simulations, not real. The link above is a real one.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4591535328173062276&q=epilepsy+seizure
I'd have to say that if you see someone having what is described as a partial seizure, they may be diabetic and may be in insulin shock, meaning they need glucose or a glucose shot to bring them out of it. The motions the woman recreated were very realistic and close to what I have seen many times.

[cra$h]

getting back on topic... damn thats a cool illusion!